Giuseppe Filippo Lepori

Giuseppe Filippo Lepori (born October 8, 1800 in Lugano , † July 3, 1873 in Serocca (municipality of Agno )) was a Swiss lawyer , politician , journalist and Ticino Grand Councilor and State Councilor .

biography

Giuseppe Filippo Lepori was born to Lorenzo Leporo von Lugano and Caterina Quadri. After high school at the Collegio Sant'Antonio der Somasker in Lugano, he studied law at the University of Pavia . He heard lectures from Gian Domenico Romagnosi and was involved in the revolution in Piedmont in 1821 . He then returned to Lugano and became a lawyer and notary.

From 1828 to 1838 he was governor of the Lugano district and municipal councilor of Lugano. Together with Stefano Franscini he worked from 1838 to 1839 as editor of the magazine L'Amico della Riforma . In 1839 he was elected to the Ticino Grand Council and with the liberal revolution of that year he became a State Councilor (until 1845).

After 1846 he broke away from the liberal majority and became one of the representatives of the new liberal-conservative opposition. After all, he was a judge at the Court of Appeal from 1866 to 1873.

literature

• Fabrizio Mena: Stamperie ai margini d'Italia: editori e librai nella Svizzera italiana, 1746–1848. Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2003, pp. 232, 244, 247, 332.
• Giuseppe Martinola : Il pensiero politico dell'Ottocento: (by Annibale Pellegrini a Carlo Battaglini) Editrice La Scuola, Bellinzona 1967, pp. 33-36.
• Fabrizio Panzera: Giuseppe Filippo Lepori. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 17, 2006 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Celestino Trezzini : Giuseppe Filippo Lepori. Digitized In: Historical-Biographical Lexicon of Switzerland . Volume 4, Krauer - Liebburg, Attinger Verlag, Neuenburg 1927, p. 659.