Giacomo Luvini

Giacomo Luvini-Perseghini, portrait of by Giacomo Donati from Astano , 1863 (Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana, Lugano)

Giacomo Luvini also Giacomo Luvini-Perseghini or Jakob Luvini-Perseghini (born February 23, 1795 in Lugano ; † May 24, 1862 ibid) was a Swiss politician and officer. For over three decades he was the city ​​president of Lugano. From 1848 to 1854 and from 1855 until his death he was a member of the National Council, and in between temporarily the Council of States .

biography

The son of the Ticino State Councilor Ambrogio Luvini graduated from high school in Lugano and the Collegio dei Nobili in Milan . He then studied law at the University of Parma . He received his doctorate in 1817 and worked as a lawyer and notary in his hometown from 1823 . Luvini was one of the leading representatives of the radical liberals who forced constitutional reform in June 1830 and ushered in the era of regeneration . It was the same year the Mayor of Lugano and the Ticino cantonal parliament elected. He held both offices until his death, and he presided over the Grand Council a total of 13 times.

From 1830 Luvini was several times envoy to the Federal Diet , from 1832 he held the rank of colonel . The politics of the canton of Ticino were marked by a sharp contrast between radical liberals and Catholic conservatives. In December 1839, the radical liberals forcibly seized power in a revolution, with Luvini at the forefront; in July 1841 he put down a conservative counter-revolution. During the Sonderbund War , he commanded the 6th Federal Division. She suffered a defeat against troops from the canton of Uri in the battle near Airolo on November 17, 1847 ; the only military success of the Sonderbund ultimately had no effect. The Confederation appointed Luvini four months later as envoy extraordinary to the provisional government of Milan, which had formed after the March Revolution on the territory of the Austrian- ruled kingdom of Lombardy-Veneto .

In October 1848 Luvini ran successfully in the first national council elections . In a debate on the National Council, he verbally clashed with Colonel Rudolf Benz from the canton of Zurich so intensely that they then fought out the argument in a duel with sabers . Benz was slightly injured in the hand.

After the elections of 1851 Luvini represented the newly formed constituency of Ticino-South . In the National Council elections in 1854 he was voted out when the Conservatives won the election, whereupon the cantonal government immediately sent him to the Council of States . In addition, the radical liberals challenged the election result and were successful with their appeal in court. The elections were repeated in March 1855 and Luvini returned to the National Council. From March to September 1855 he was also a member of the cantonal government.

Fonts

• Sulla necessita di eleggere buoni, integerrimi Magistrati, zelanti del pubblico bene, amici delle publiche libertà e nemici del dispotismo: Preghiera dell'avvocato Giacomo Luvini-Perseghini, assente dalla cara sua Patria in Deputazione alla Dieta Federale in Bern . Tipografia Ruggia e Compagni, Lugano 1830.
• The reports of Colonel Luvini, extraordinary federal plenipotentiary in Milan, from 1848. Alfred Stern (Ed.) Printed and published by KJ Wyss, Bern 1915.
• Colpo d'occhio al paragraph 7 del decreto governativo del 18 giugno 1830: dedicato al generoso popolo del Ticino. Editore Ruggia, Lugano 1830.
• Risposta all'opuscolo del sig. Landamano Giovan Battista Quadri deputato diretto del Circolo della Magliasina intitolato Osservazioni dell'autore di un progetto d'indirizzo da farsi dalle comuni ecc. Lugano, May 18, 1830 (with Stefano Franscini ).
• Assemblea comunale di Lugano del 23 maggio 1830: [riforma della Costituzione]. Tipografia di Giuseppe Ruggia e Compagni, Lugano 1830 (with Pietro Peri )
• Comments from a minority of the commission charged with revising the federal military penal code. Zurich, December 27, 1834 (with Jean-Elisée Massé).

Honors

A street in Lugano is named after him, Via Giacomo Luvini in the city center.

literature

• Franz Blaser: Libertà e repubblica: The Ticino radical Giacomo Luvini-Perseghini in the revolutionary year of 1848. Peter Lang AG, 1999.
• Raffaello Ceschi: Ottocento ticinese. La costruzione di un Cantone. Armando Dadò Editore, Locarno 2003.
• Virgilio Chiesa : Lettera di Giuseppe Mazzini a Giacomo Luvini-Perseghini. In: Archivio storico ticinese. Casagrande, Bellinzona 1961, p. 4.
• Pablo Crivelli: Giacomo Luvini-Perseghini. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . July 23, 2008 , accessed March 22, 2020 .
• Erich Gruner : Federal Assembly. Volume 1, Francke, Bern 1966, p. 744.

Web links

• Giacomo Luvini Perseghini sindaco di Lugano per 32 years on dt.ch/ticino/lugano

Individual evidence

1. ^ Giacomo Luvini parliament.ch
2. ^ Pablo Crivelli: Giacomo Luvini-Perseghini. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . July 23, 2008 .
3. ^ Official collection of the recent Eidgenössische Abschiede , Volume 2, limited preview in the Google book search
4. ↑ With sabers instead of arguments. St. Galler Tagblatt , February 22, 2015, archived from the original on November 5, 2016 ; Retrieved November 4, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Celestino Trezzini : Giacomo Luvini-Perseghini. Digitized In: Historical-Biographical Lexicon of Switzerland . Volume 5, Liebegg - Maillard, Attinger Verlag, Neuenburg 1929, p. 742.