Giuseppe Pasolini

Giuseppe Pasolini

Giuseppe Francesco Leonardo Apollinare Count Pasolini Dall'Onda (born February 8, 1815 in Ravenna , † December 4, 1876 in Ravenna) was an Italian politician.

Life

Giuseppe Pasolini, son of Count Pier Desiderio Pasolini and Amalia Santa Croce, dedicated to the study of agriculture, visited after being in Naples , the natural sciences and economics had studied, Switzerland, France, England and Germany and took over after his return in 1843 the management his property at Imola , where he made friends with the then bishop, Cardinal Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti (later Pope Pius IX ). In 1846 he signed the memorandum addressed to the conclave by the city of Ravenna . After his friend Mastai-Ferretti was elected Pope, Pasolini became a member of the State Consulta in 1847 and was appointed Minister of Trade, Agriculture, Industry and the Fine Arts in February 1848. A Roman army was sent to Lombardy to take part in the War of Independence. But because of the indecision of Pius IX. Pasolini resigned after a few months. After the assassination of Pellegrino Rossia (November 15, 1848), he left Rome and retired with his family to Pisa . In 1849 he settled in a villa near Florence . He stayed in Tuscany until 1855, but made many trips abroad. From 1857 he was gonfalonier of Ravenna for several years and in 1859, as an ardent patriot, took an active part in the unification of Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna with Sardinia .

In March 1860 Pasolini became a member of the Italian Senate, in September 1860 civil governor of Milan and in April 1862 prefect of Turin . From December 8, 1862 to March 24, 1863 he held the post of Foreign Minister in the government of Prime Minister Luigi Carlo Farini . Shortly afterwards he traveled to England and France to obtain approval for the planned annexation of Venice to the Kingdom of Italy. Then he took over the Prefecture of Turin again, but resigned this office in December 1864 after the bloody unrest following the September Convention (September 1864). In 1866 he led the administration of Venice until the permanent annexation. Then he retired to the country. From December 3, 1874 to October 3, 1876 he was President of the Italian Senate. After returning from the funeral of the Duchess of Aosta and former Spanish Queen Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo , he died on December 4, 1876 at the age of 61 in Ravenna.

literature

• Pasolini, Giuseppe . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 17, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 645.

Web links

• Pasolini Giuseppe. senato.it

Remarks

1. ↑ Pasolini's dates of birth and death according to Gian Luca Fruci: Pasolini dall'Onda, Giuseppe. in: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani . Volume 81, 2014.