Giuseppe Cusi
Giuseppe Cusi (born February 27, 1780 in Milan , † September 26, 1864 in Gambara ) was an Italian engineer and architect, best known as the planner of the Teatro Sociale di Como (1813).
biography
As the son of Carlo Giuseppe Cusi and Rosa Salina, he completed his civil engineering studies at the University of Pavia at the beginning of the 19th century. From around 1802 to 1806 he worked in Milan, where he collaborated with Luigi Canonica on the design and realization of the Teatro Carcano . From 1807 he worked in Como , where he had some important orders, such as the expansion of the port, the construction of the road from Como to Barlassina , another road from Como to Lecco , and above all the project for the Teatro Sociale di Como, whose designs are dated April 18, 1811.
In 1809 Giuseppe Cusi met Rosa Beltrami, daughter of Egidio Beltrami from Clanezzo, in Bergamo , whom he married on June 4, 1809 and with whom he had three children: Egidio, Teresa, who died early, and Rosa.
In the years 1810-1811 Cusi was again active in the province of Milan, where he supervised the execution of the hydraulic works on the Naviglio Pavese and the Naviglio della Martesana .
From 1811 to 1814 he worked in the Novara Province .
From 1815 to 1820 he worked in the province of Sondrio as chief engineer of the provincial administration: His intensive work as a topographer from this period culminated in a magnificent illustrated board with the topography of the province of Sondrio, dated “Milan, May 10th 1825”.
In 1821 Cusi was back in Bergamo, where in 1825 he began designing the Casa di Ricovero dei Poveri alle Grazie (today's headquarters of Credito Bergamasco). The project of the neoclassical Propylaea of the Barriera delle Grazie, also in Bergamo, dates from 1828 , built in 1837, today known as the " Porta Nuova ".
In 1829 he was appointed chief engineer of the provinces of Como and Brescia, a position which he held for about twenty years and in which he carried out intensive planning and monitoring activities. Among the works of these decades are to be mentioned: River restoration work on the Adda and Mera in Pian di Spagna, north of Lake Como , mentioned in a summary report of June 10, 1839; the study of the railway line from Milan to Como in the section from Mulino Traversa, under Lentate, to Como, of February 5, 1841; a study of the demands on the simple railway line from Milan to Venice (Como 1841); the height measurement of the area between Lovere on Lake Iseo and the Tonale pass ; the profile from Chiavenna to the Splügenpass ; the relief of the shores of Lake Como from Colico to Lecco . During his years as chief engineer, he also worked on a large number of smaller projects in the fields of architecture, hydraulic engineering and topography.
Cusi has received several awards: he was appointed assistant to the Imperial Regia Direzione delle Pubbliche Costruzioni , was an honorary member of the Imperial Regia Accademia di Belle Arti , a member of the University of Bergamo , a full member of the Accademia Fisico-Medico-Statistica and the Società d'Incoraggiamento of Milan .
A passionate patriot, he passed on the ideals of freedom and love for Italy to his son and daughter. After the events of 1848-49 , in which Egidio and Rosa actively participated and irrevocably compromised each other in front of the Austrian authorities, Cusi broke off all relations with the imperial government and withdrew into private life. He divided his stays between Milan and Como, where his two sons lived, and Canova di Gambara in the province of Brescia, where for many years he had owned a house that became his favorite residence. As a tireless researcher, he pursued a wide range of interests and tried to put the experience gained over many years at the service of the new political reality of Italy.
In 1864, a few months before his death, he submitted a long memorandum to the Italian Parliament on the division of land and the rescue of the threatened unity of the Kingdom of Italy .
He died on September 26, 1864 in Canova di Gambara (Brescia).
Works
- Giuseppe Cusi: Memoria sui canali di derivazione, Milano . Giuseppe Redaelli tipografo-litografo-librajo, 1847 (Italian).
literature
- E. Fornoni: Le vicinie cittadine . 1905 (Italian).
- B. Belotti: Storia di Bergamo e dei Bergamaschi . tape V . Bergamo 1959 (Italian).
- L. Angelini: Lo sviluppo di Bergamo nei secoli . Bergamo 1962 (Italian).
- S. Angelini: Com'era, com'è - Porta Nuova . In: Riv. di Bergamo . ns, XVII (1966) - (Italian).
- C. Rodi: Adda fiume lombardo . Como 1975 (Italian).
- P. Roda: Giuseppe Cusi l'architetto del teatro Sociale di Como . Atti del Convegno, Civiltà neoclassica nell'attuale provincia di Como, Como 1979. In: Arte lombarda . 1980, p. 55-57 (Italian).
- Paolo Roda: CUSI, Giuseppe. In: Massimiliano Pavan (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 31: Cristaldi – Dalla Nave. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1985.
Web links
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Individual evidence
- ^ P. Roda, Giuseppe Cusi l'architetto ....
- ↑ B. Belotti
- ↑ L. Angelini
- ^ S. Angelini
- ↑ C. Rodi, Adda fiume lombardo, Como 1975.
- ↑ P. Roda
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cusi, Giuseppe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian architect and geometer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 27, 1780 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milan |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 26, 1864 |
| Place of death | Gambara |