Aurelio Bianchi-Giovini

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Aurelio Bianchi-Giovini (born November 25, 1799 in Como , † May 16, 1862 Milan ) was an Italian historian and journalist .

Life

Bianchi-Giovini came to a trading house in Milan to become a merchant, then to Vienna to learn the German language, but was suspected by the Austrian police and after a short time forced by them to return to Milan. In order to avoid the constant persecution of the police, he went to Switzerland in 1830, where he took part in the work for Tipografia elvetica in Capolago, Canton Ticino , edited the magazine L'Ancora and translated Darus Histoire de Venise .

In 1835 he founded the journal Il Repubblicano della Svizzera italiana and then began his Storia dei papi in 1837 , a courageous, large-scale, but unfinished work that testifies to great learning despite occasional less well-founded claims. A valuable preliminary study for this is the historical monograph Vita di fra Paolo Sarpi (Lugano 1836), which saw several editions. After a short stay in Zurich, Bianchi-Giovini made use of the amnesty issued in Austria in 1838 in 1842 and returned to Milan, where he continued to do historical work.

Of these we should mention: a history of the Hebrews, an essay on Popess Joan , critical studies on Cantus' universal history, the promising beginning of a history of the Lombards , a topographical lexicon of Lombardy, and more. In 1848 he went to Piedmont and took over the editing of the Opinione , which he led until June 1852, preaching the war against Austria and the Pope in the most energetic manner. Then in 1853 he founded the newspaper L'Unione , with which he moved to Milan in 1860 and to Naples in 1862.

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SURNAME Bianchi-Giovini, Aurelio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian journalist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH Como
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 1862
Place of death Milan