Gioachimo Alberti

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Gioachimo Alberti (* 1595 in Bormio ; † 1673 ) was a Podestà and captain of the people's militias during the Grisons turmoil . As a devout Catholic he was one of the supporters and advocates of the Austrian Empire . In 1632 he received the title of nobility from Ferdinand II .

Origin and life

Alberti came from an old, respected family. Bormio, today the main town of the Upper Valtellina , lies at 1200 meters in a valley basin at the foot of several 2500 to 3500 meter high mountains. Above all, the north-facing valley of the Adda represents an important Alpine crossing. In 1620/21 the conflicts between the religious parties came to a head and bloody fighting broke out in his home town. Not only the troops under the Huguenot leader Henri II. De Rohan arrested and tortured him, he was also persecuted and arrested by Graubünden and Austrian troops.

In his old age he wrote the drama Antichità di Bormio about this conflict , which goes far beyond the actual event and basically represents a kind of "village history", which is endowed with many sources, but ends in 1639. The last years from 1616 onwards have an anecdotal and memorial-like effect on the reader, contrary to the previous performance of his work. His attitude emerges abundantly. Like all historians of the time, he rejects the democracy that has found its way into Graubünden and which is now threatening to gain a foothold in his region. «For the educated, the rational form of government is the monarchy or the aristocracy ; Bünden appears to be an unbearable special case. " He still hopes for Austria-Spain to be liberated, but this never happened. Due to the scope of his work, the significance goes far beyond the Addatal. In 1890 a newly published copy of this drama was published in Como . Ernst Hafter raised in the publication A new source for the history of the Bündner confused in the XVII. Century the importance of this font, which is today in the State Archives Graubünden , particularly emphasized.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Richard Feller , Edgar Bonjour : Geschichtsschreibung der Schweiz , Volume 1, Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Basel 1979, ISBN 3-7190-0722-7 , p. 344 f.
  2. ↑ Free State Archive, Books State Archive Graubünden , p. 63
  3. ↑ quoted from Feller
  4. ^ Rudolf Jenny: Manuscripts from private ownership in the Graubünden State Archives. Volume II, Repertory with Regesta, Β 1705, p. 452
personal data
SURNAME Alberti, Gioachimo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lombard nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH 1595
PLACE OF BIRTH Bormio , Lombardy
DATE OF DEATH 1673