Giovanni Grilenzoni

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Giovanni Grilenzoni or Grillenzoni (born April 6, 1796 in Reggio Emilia , † March 5, 1868 in Viganello (now the municipality of Lugano )) was an Italian military, politician, businessman and republican .

Life

Giovanni Grilenzoni was the son of Count Bernardo Grilenzoni from Reggio Emilia and Countess Claudia Scaruffi. He began a military career in Modena , was close to the secret society of the Carbonari and was involved in the anti-Austrian conspiracy of 1821. By the Duke of Modena Francesco IV. , Sentenced to death in absentia, he left Modena, settled in Lugano and took part in the meeting of the Mazzinists in Lugano in 1833 .

In the canton of Aargau naturalized in 1828, he was Aidemajor Ticino troops. As a friend and co-conspirator of Giacomo and Filippo Ciani, he took an active part in Ticino politics and was expelled with the Ciani in 1839, which served as a pretext for the revolution that broke out at the time. As an opponent of foreign rule in Italy, he was temporarily expelled from the canton by the conservative Ticino government in 1839, but in 1840 he was immediately taken back into Ticino. He was a friend of Giuseppe Mazzini and was his most important confidante in Ticino. He lived in Viganello in Villa Costanza from 1845 .

literature

  • Carlo Agliati: Giovanni Grlienzoni. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . February 6, 2006 , accessed January 22, 2020 .
  • Mario Agliati : Lugano del buon tempo. Armando Dadò Editore, Locarno 1983, pp. 52, 149, 371, 381.
  • Virgilio Chiesa : Un illustrious esule: Giovanni Grilenzoni. In: La Scuola , n.11, November 1951; the same: Duello mancato tra il colonnello Giacomo Luvini e il Conte Grilenzoni (1850–1851). In: "Archivio storico ticinese", Casagrande, Bellinzona 1962, 4.
  • Giuseppe Martinola : Gli esuli italiani nel Ticino 1791–1847. Vol. 1, Fondazione Ticino Nostro, Lugano 1980, pp. 103-106; 1994².

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Celestino Trezzini : Giovanni Grilenzoni. Digitized at biblio.unibe.ch/digibern/hist_bibliog_lexikon_schweiz, p. 746, (accessed on October 20, 2017).
  2. ↑ Giovanni Grilenzoni (Italian) at ti.ch/can/oltreconfiniti (accessed on: July 22, 2016.)
  3. ↑ Giovanni Grilenzoni (Italian) on ricercamusica.ch/dizionario (accessed on: July 22, 2016.)
personal data
SURNAME Grilenzoni, Giovanni
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grillenzoni Giovanni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian politician, entrepreneur and republican
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH Reggio Emilia
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 1868
Place of death Viganello