Emilio Bossi

Emilio Bossi

Emilio Bossi (born December 31, 1870 in Bruzella , † November 27, 1920 in Lugano ) was a Swiss politician ( FDP ). He was the Ticino cantonal parliament and State Council , the National Council and Council of States , free thinkers and followers of Freemasonry .

Life

Emilio Bossi, son of the architect Francesco Bossi from Bruzella , graduated from high school in Lugano and studied law at the University of Geneva . The lawyer and journalist became known for his polemical writings under the pseudonym Milesbo . He vehemently defended the Italianità des Ticino and fought just as fiercely against clericalism .

In 1893 he became editor-in-chief of the magazine Vita Nova , in 1895 he founded the daily L'Idea moderna , at the end of the century he became editor-in-chief of the newspaper Gazzetta Ticinese , which was oriented towards the extreme left, and in 1906 he founded L'Azione , the Organ of the extreme left within the Free Party. In 1920 he became director of the liberal-radical newspaper Il Dovere , published from 1878 in Bellinzona , organ of the Ticino radical-liberal party until 1992 (merger with L'Eco di Locarno).

As a politician, Emilio Bossi was Ticino Gross (1905–1910, 1914–1920) and State Councilor (1910–1914, Department of the Interior); at the federal level National (1914–1920) and Council of States (1920). 1905-1910 he was examining magistrate for the Sottoceneri . As an atheist , he wrote the book Gesù Cristo non è mai esistito

Works

• Sulla separazione dello Stato dalla Chiesa. Tipografia Carlo Salvioni, Bellinzona, 1899.
• Gesù Cristo non è mai esistito. Società Editrice Milanese, Milan 1904.
• I clericali e la libertà. 1909.
• The elettrica ferrovia in valle di Muggio. Tipografia commerciale moderna, Lugano 1910.
• Venti mesi di storia svizzera. Tipografia Luganese Sanvito & C., Lugano 1916.
• Cristo nella storia, nella Bibbia, nella mitologia. Tipografia Libraria-editrice, Bellinzona 1935.

literature

• Elio Bossi: Milesbo. RPrint, Locarno 2013, ISBN 978-88-907174-3-7 .
• Andrea Ghiringhelli: Emilio Bossi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . February 13, 2003 , accessed January 13, 2020 .
• Willy Gianinazzi: Speranze, delusioni e ruolo storico dell'estrema sinistra radicale ticinese (1893-1908). In Archivio Storico Ticinese. Casagrande, Bellinzona 1982, pp. 103-152.
• Erich Gruner : Federal Assembly. Volume 1, Francke Verlag, Bern 1978, p. 729 f.
• Franco Masoni: Emilio Bossi: commemorazione del centenario. La Commerciale, Lugano 1973.

Web links

Commons : Emilio Bossi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Gesù Cristo non è mai esistito on the website of Giovanni Dall'Orto (review, Italian)
• Bibliography by Emilio Bossi on WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Emilio Bossi National Council and Council of States on parlament.ch/de/biographie
2. ↑ Celestino Trezzini : Emilio Bossi. In: Historical-Biographical Lexicon of Switzerland . Volume 2 Biondetti - Brupbacher. Attinger Verlag, Neuchâtel 1924, p. 35.