Giovanni Antonio Rusca

Giovanni Antonio Rusca (* 1780 in Locarno ; † March 19, 1853 in Milan ) was a Swiss lawyer , politician , journalist and Ticino Grand Councilor and State Councilor .

biography

Giovanni Antonio Rusca of Loco (today the municipality of Isorno ) was born as the son of Giuseppe Antonio Rusca and Giuseppa Scannagatti. After his studies he worked as a lawyer in Locarno and in 1839 was one of the co-founders of Nuova Gazzetta del Cantone Ticino , a politically moderate newspaper. He was elected to the Ticino Grand Council (President 1836) from 1808 to 1815 and from 1833 to 1839, and in 1837 he took part in the federal parliament as Ticino envoy .

In 1838 he was elected to the Ticino State Council as a moderate and formed the three-party alliance with Corrado Molo and Giovanni Battista Riva , the so-called la Tripola . In the radical revolution of 1839 this government was overthrown, whereupon Rusca was charged with treason and, after an absent trial, sentenced to three years of forced labor and expulsion from public office, where he managed to escape the sentence by fleeing to Pallanza .

Nevertheless, he played a leading role in planning the failed counterrevolutionary attempts of 1841 and 1843 in the canton of Ticino.

literature

• Fabrizio Mena: Stamperie ai margini d'Italia: editori e librai nella Svizzera italiana, 1746–1848. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2003, pp. 142, 246-248.
• Fabrizio Panzera: Società religiosa e società civile nel Ticino del primo Ottocento. Le origini del movimento cattolico nel Cantone Ticino (1798–1855). Cappelli Editore, Bologna 1989.
• Annamaria Valenti: Giovanni Antonio Rusca. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 20, 2012 , accessed January 19, 2020 .

Web links

• Giovanni Antonio Rusca on portalestoria.net/.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Celestino Trezzini : Giovanni Antonio Rusca. Digitized In: Historical-Biographical Lexicon of Switzerland . Volume 5, Retornaz - Saint Didier, Attinger Verlag, Neuchâtel 1929, p. 762.