Fiorenzo Bava Beccaris

Piazza del Duomo : Bava Beccaris' soldiers fighting against insurgents

Fiorenzo Bava Beccaris (born March 17, 1831 in Fossano , † April 8, 1924 in Rome ) was an Italian general who was particularly known for the crackdown on an uprising in Milan in 1898, known as the Bava-Beccaris massacre , and the brutality he showed has been.

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Fiorenzo Bava Beccaris was born in Fossano in the Piedmont region in 1831 .

He embarked on a military career and took part in the Crimean War and the Italian Wars of Independence .

In the mid-1890s, after the resignation of Francesco Crispi, the tensions caused by his politics intensified until they erupted in a revolt in Milan in May 1898 because of the rise in wheat prices. Then Bava Beccaris was used as military commander of Milan. The general declared a state of siege. He had his soldiers fired at unarmed demonstrators, and depending on the information, between 82 and 300 people were killed. When the uprising was suppressed, a wave of purges followed. The politicians Filippo Turati and Leonida Bissolati , the doctor Anna Kuliscioff and radical and Catholic journalists were arrested. “Red” (socialist) and “black” (Catholic) organizations were dissolved. The Italian King Umberto I awarded the General the Grand Cross of the Military Order of Savoy in June 1898 for the suppression of the uprising and the defense of the royal palace . Shortly afterwards he was appointed to the Italian Senate .

The promotion of Bava Beccaris is considered to be the trigger for the assassination attempt by Gaetano Bresci , who shot King Umberto I on July 29, 1900 in Monza.

Bava Beccaris retired in 1902 and died in Rome in 1924.

literature

Raffaele Colapietra: Bava Beccaris, Fiorenzo. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 7: Bartolucci – Bellotto. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1965.

Web links

Entry in the Senatori dell'Italia liberale database of the Historical Archives of the Italian Senate

Biographical information on LombardiaBeniCulturali

Information on the estate and family archives in the Civiche raccolte storiche in the Museo del Risorgimento in Milan . The documents cover the period from 1598 to 1830. There are also materials on the unrest of 1898.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Fiorenzo Bava Beccaris on the website of the Italian Senate, accessed on September 27, 2010
^ Rudolf Lill : History of Italy from the 16th century to the beginnings of fascism . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1980, ISBN 3-534-06746-0 , p. 236.
↑ Thomas Okey: United Italy : In: Adolphus William Ward , George Walter Prothero , Stanley Leathes (eds.): The Cambridge Modern History , Vol. 12: The Latest Age. University Press, Cambridge 1910, chapter Riots at Milan , here p. 220.
^ ^A ^b Rudolf Lill: History of Italy from the 16th Century to the Beginnings of Fascism . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1980, p. 237.
^ Rudolf Lill: History of Italy from the 16th century to the beginnings of fascism . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1980, p. 238.

personal data
SURNAME	Bava Beccaris, Fiorenzo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian general
DATE OF BIRTH	March 17, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH	Fossano
DATE OF DEATH	April 8, 1924
Place of death	Rome

[SENAT-1] Fiorenzo Bava Beccaris on the website of the Italian Senate, accessed on September 27, 2010

[2] Rudolf Lill : History of Italy from the 16th century to the beginnings of fascism . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1980, ISBN 3-534-06746-0 , p. 236.

[3] Thomas Okey: United Italy : In: Adolphus William Ward , George Walter Prothero , Stanley Leathes (eds.): The Cambridge Modern History , Vol. 12: The Latest Age. University Press, Cambridge 1910, chapter Riots at Milan , here p. 220.

[Rudolf_Lill_237-4] A ^b Rudolf Lill: History of Italy from the 16th Century to the Beginnings of Fascism . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1980, p. 237.

[5] Rudolf Lill: History of Italy from the 16th century to the beginnings of fascism . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1980, p. 238.