Corrado Molo

Corrado Molo (born November 26, 1792 in Bellinzona , † April 1, 1864 in Milan ) was a Swiss lawyer , politician , journalist and Ticino Grand Councilor and Councilor of the Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP).

biography

Corrado Molo was born the son of Vincenzo Molo of Bellinzona. He was a lawyer in Bellinzona and supported the constitutional reform of 1830 and was one of the best-known exponents of the moderate liberals. He was the founder and editor of Iride (1836-1838), a moderate weekly newspaper as well as in 1839 of its successor Nuova Gazzetta del Canton Ticino . He was elected as envoy to the federal assembly (1830-1832 and 1834) and participated in the drafting of the criminal and civil cantonal laws. He was elected to the Ticino Grand Council in 1826 (President 1831 and 1833).

In 1835 he was elected to the Council of State, which he dominated from 1837 in a two-party alliance (the Imperante dualità ) with Giovanni Battista Riva , from 1838 expanded by Giovanni Antonio Rusca , in a so-called Tripola. As the head of the moderate government majority overthrown by the revolution of 1839, he was accused of high treason , sentenced to three years of hard labor and a ban on public office in absentia, and had to settle permanently in Milan.

literature

• Fabrizio Panzera: Società religiosa e società civile nel Ticino del primo Ottocento. Le origini del movimento cattolico nel Cantone Ticino (1798–1855). Cappelli Editore, Bologna 1989.
• Daniela Pauli Falconi: Corrado Molo. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . May 8, 2007 , accessed December 18, 2019 .

Web links

• Corrado Molo Granconsigliere (Italian) on e-rara.ch/lg1/ticinensia.
• Corrado Molo on portalestoria.net/
• Lettera di Battista Monti da Balerna a Corrado Molo (Italian) on e-rara.ch/lg1/ticinensia/content/titleinfo/

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Celestino Trezzini : Corrado Molo. Digitized In: Historical-Biographical Lexicon of Switzerland . Volume 5, Maillard - Monod, Attinger Verlag, Neuenburg 1929, p. 131.