Giovanni Antonio Marcacci

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Giovanni Antonio Marcacci (born August 15, 1769 in Locarno , † April 10, 1854 in Milan ) was a Swiss lawyer , politician , Polish baron, Ticino councilor and consul general in the Kingdom of Lombardy-Veneto .

Life

Giovanni Antonio Marcacci was the son of Fiskals the bailiwick of Locarno Carlo Francesco Marcacci Locarno and Teresa Ciceri from Como born. He attended the College Papio in Ascona and then studied law in Milan and at the universities of Fulda , Freiburg im Breisgau and Pavia and obtained his doctorate in law. In 1776, after the death of his father, he was appointed tax clerk for Locarno, a position he held from 1793 to 1798.

From 1798 to 1803 he was a member of the Swiss Grand Council, the Legislative Council (1801 last President), the Senate and the Supreme Court and 1803-1804 Ticino Grand Council and member of the Diet . From 1804 to 1835 he was the diplomatic representative of Switzerland in Milan, first as chargé d'affaires in the Italian Republic , then - with the rank of Honorary Colonel - in the Kingdom of Italy , after the fall of Napoleon as Consul General in the Austrian Kingdom of Lombardy-Veneto .

He spent the last years of his life in Lombardy as a wealthy landowner. The city of Locarno inherited its goods in the canton of Ticino. The Palazzo Marcacci became the seat of the authorities of the municipality of Locarno, who erected a memorial in his honor in the Piazza Sant'Antonio designed by Alessandro Rossi .

As a Swiss parliamentarian, he achieved recognition of the Italian language as the third national language and, as a diplomat, shaped the relations between Switzerland and Italy for decades .

literature

  • Bernhard Other: Guida d'Arte della Svizzera Italiana. Edizioni Trelingue, Lugano – Porza 1980, p. 118.
  • Raffaello Ceschi (ed.): Storia della Svizzera Italiana dal Cinquecento al Settecento. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2000, pp. 49, 72, 412 f.
  • Virgilio Gilardoni : I monumenti d'arte e di storia del Canton Ticino, Volume II L'alto Verbano - Il Circolo delle Isole (Ascona, Ronco, Losone e Brissago). Birkäuser Verlag, Basel 1979. pp. 60, 66, 68, 70, 84, 90, 92, 98, 108, 110, 125, 129, 130, 131, 133 f., 144, 150–153, 156, 159, 169, 175, 283, 308.
  • Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, p. 178.
  • Hans Rudolf Schneider: Giovanni Antonio Marcacci (1769-1854). A Ticino as a Swiss politician and diplomat between the Ancien Régime and Regeneration. Pedrazzini, Locarno 1975; the same: Giovanni Antonio Marcacci (Locarno 1769 - Milano 1854). Un politico ticinese rappresentante diplomatico svizzero nella Milano napoleonica e austriaca. Hoepli, Milano 2010.
  • Hans Rudolf Scheider: Giovanni Antonio Marcacci. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 21, 2010 , accessed March 28, 2020 .
  • Teresio Valsesia: Un barone locarnese a tu per tu con Napoleone. In. Giornale del Popolo, August 11, 2010, p. 8.

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personal data
SURNAME Marcacci, Giovanni Antonio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss diplomat and politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1769
PLACE OF BIRTH Locarno
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1854
Place of death Milan