Giovanni Visconti-Venosta

Giovanni Visconti-Venosta (also: Gino , born September 4, 1831 in Milan ; † October 1, 1906 , ibid) was an Italian politician , author and an advocate of Italian unification ( Risorgimento ).

Surname

The name Giovanni Visconti-Venosta comes from two noble families (the Visconti and the Venosta ). The Venosta originally come from the region around Grosio in Valtellina , the Visconti from the region around Milan. Giovanni's grandfather, Nicola (1752–1828), had moved to Tirano, and his father, Francesco (1798–1846), moved to Milan in 1823.

For the origin of the name, see also: Venosten and Val Venosta .

Life

Francesco Visconti-Venosta married Paola Borgazzi († 1864) in Milan. The marriage has three sons: Nicolo, Emilio and Giovanni. The first-born, Nicolo, died in childhood. Emilio Visconti-Venosta was born in 1829. Both brothers grew up mostly in Milan and lived in the family's houses in Grosio and Tirano during the summer . After the death of the father in 1846, the education of the brothers was taken over by Cesare Correnti . Correnti was a proponent of united Italy and against the rule of the Austrians in northern Italy and he influenced the brothers in this regard. The two brothers were trained at the Istituto Boselli in Milan and in politics at the Correnti House. Both Gino and Emilio were enthusiastic about the unification of Italy. a. embodied in the writings of Giuseppe Mazzini (1805–1872) and Giovanni Berchet (1783–1851).

Giovanni met Laura d'Adda Salvaterra Scaccabarozzi († 1904) in Milan at the beginning of the 1850s, who was still married at the time. A few years later, after she became a widow, the two married. The marriage remained childless.

On October 1st, 1906, Giovanni Visconti-Venosta died in Milan after a brief illness. The funeral took place in Milan, his body was buried in Grosio's family crypt.

Political activity

Clara Maffei

After the failure of the 1848 revolution in Italy, in which Emilio was already an active participant (Giovanni was still too young), Emilio fled to Bergamo , where he joined the Garibaldi militia, and Giovanni and the rest of the family went to Bellinzona . In the summer of 1848 Giovanni often visited his brother stationed in Lugano and saw Mazzini several times. In October 1848 the family returned to Milan with Giovanni. The city was occupied by Croatian soldiers under Austrian leadership. The situation in Tirano was similar. In the winter of 1848 Giovanni returned to Milan and began to participate in the resistance against Austrian rule in Lombardy (see e.g. Italian Wars of Independence and Revolution of 1848/1849 in the Empire Austria - Italy ).

He attended the University of Pavia and from 1850 the salon of Clara Maffei (1814–1886) almost every day. The discussions in the salon also won Giovanni for a monarchist future of a united Italy. In the salon, Giovanni also met Alessandro Manzoni . Giovanni also visited the house of Carmelita Fé Manara (the widow of Luciano Manara ), where comic parodies were presented using marionettes. Here Giovanni was encouraged to compose parodies himself. The most famous of his parodies was La partenza del Crociato ( English : The Departure of the Crusader ), which was written in Tirano in 1856. In the 1850s the Visconti-Venosta brothers traveled extensively and together throughout Italy and also to Paris .

After Emilio Dandolo's funeral , the Visconti-Venosta brothers came under suspicion by the authorities in 1859 and sought refuge in Piedmont . When the two brothers were in Turin , Giovanni contacted Cesare Correnti, who had been living here in exile for some time. He also met Giuseppe Garibaldi and Camillo Benso von Cavour , who appointed him a member of a consultative commission for Lombardy. Shortly after the Visconti-Venosta brothers arrived in Turin in 1859, the Second Italian War of Independence broke out. With the end of Austrian rule in Lombardy as a result of this war, Giovanni returned to Valtellina after a few months as a royal commissar, where he mediated between Cavour and Garibaldi. After the preliminary peace at Villafranca on July 11, 1859, Giovanni left Valtellina and went back to Milan.

In 1865 Giovanni was elected to the new Italian parliament for a term to represent the constituency of Milan. He subsequently held a number of influential positions in public administration and was one of the co-founders of the daily La Perseveranza .

Publications

Giovanni Visconti-Venosta was also known as an author. He published various publications in Il Crepuscolo and La Perseveranza since 1859. Other publications are e.g. B .:

Novella , Florence 1871,
Ricordi di gioventù , Milan 1904 (created with the substantial contribution of his wife, who died in 1904),
Nuovi racconti , Milan 1897,
Lo scartafaccio dell'amico Michele , Milan 1899,

Web links

Biography degli amministratori , Provincia di Sondrio.

Individual evidence

↑ Visconti-Venosta , Enciclopedia Italiana, Treccani, la cultura italiana of June 27, 2016.
^ ^A ^b G. Visconti Venosta, Ricordi di gioventù. Cose vedute o sapute. 1847–1860 , Milano, Rizzoli, ed. 1959, pp. 17-18, 33-36, 42-43, 137-140
↑ ^a ^b D. Pizzagalli, L'amica. Clara Maffei e il suo salotto nel Risorgimento, Milano, Rizzoli, 2004, pp. 60-61, 113-115.

personal data
SURNAME	Visconti-Venosta, Giovanni
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Visconti-Venosta, Gino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian-Italian author and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	September 4, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH	Milan
DATE OF DEATH	October 1, 1906
Place of death	Milan

[1] Visconti-Venosta , Enciclopedia Italiana, Treccani, la cultura italiana of June 27, 2016.

[GVV-2] A ^b G. Visconti Venosta, Ricordi di gioventù. Cose vedute o sapute. 1847–1860 , Milano, Rizzoli, ed. 1959, pp. 17-18, 33-36, 42-43, 137-140

[GVV2-3] D. Pizzagalli, L'amica. Clara Maffei e il suo salotto nel Risorgimento, Milano, Rizzoli, 2004, pp. 60-61, 113-115.