Giuseppe Colli di Felizzano

Giuseppe Colli di Felizzano (born September 9, 1870 in Saluzzo , † September 12, 1937 in Rapallo ) was an Italian military and diplomat .

Life

Giuseppe Colli di Felizzano was the son of Maria Faussone di Germagnano and Colonel Corrado Colli di Felizzano, the last "Hussar of Piacenza", a cavalry regiment formed in 1859 with Hungarian volunteers. He studied at the Accademia Militare di Modena until 1889 . With the rank of lieutenant of the cavalry of the regiment Lancieri di Novara (Lancer Novara), he applied for posts in Italian colonies. In 1896 he was used under Antonio Baldissera in the occupation of Kassala in the colony of Eritrea . He commanded a group of Meharisti (camel cavalry). From January 1897 he organized an intelligence service in the colony of Eritrea. He recruited a troop of locals in Agordat to suppress uprisings. He was stationed in Mogolo, Gash-Barka , where he forwarded information from the border area in the west to the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and in the south to the area of ​​the Kunama (people) to the civil commissioner of the colony Ferdinando Martini in the Palazzo del Governatore (Asmara) .

He headed the Italian delegation of an Eritrean-Sudanese-Ethiopian border commission. The British delegation was led by Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury . This resulted in the Talbot-Colli Map , which, as an annex to the Convenzione Talbot-Colli of April 16, 1901, determined the course of the border. The agreement between the Italian representatives: Ferdinando Martini, Giacomo Agnesa (Direttore dell'Ufficio Coloniale del MAE), Federico Ciccodicola, Alessandro Bodrero and the representatives of the British government: Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron Rennell , Lord Edward Gleichen, John Lane Harrington , was signed in Rome on November 22, 1901. In the agreement, the Kunama (people) were added to the colony of Eritrea , while a caravan route to Kassala fell under the dominion of Menelik II . The Eritrean-Sudanese-Ethiopian border treaty was signed in Addis Ababa on May 15, 1902 by Menelik II , representatives of the Italian and British governments. The ratification of the treaty failed on February 12, 1903 in the Senato del Regno d'Italia. With the order to renegotiate the border treaty, Colli di Felizzano was from 1907 chargé d'affaires in Addis Ababa ; he remained there as envoy until 1919.

On April 1, 1920 he was appointed envoy in Stockholm .

On October 6, 1921, he was accredited as envoy in Buenos Aires , where he expressed anti-fascist views as head of the mission and was replaced by Luigi Aldovrandi Marescotti at the insistence of fascist circles in Buenos Aires.

Publications

• Nei paesi Galla a Sud Est dello Scioa

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Talbot-Colli Map ( Memento of the original from November 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ grande enciclopedia vallardi, COLLI, di Felizzano Giuseppe p. 418
3. ↑ Fernando Devoto, Historia de Los Italianos en la Argentina , p. 348
4. ↑ Vincenzo Clemente in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, COLLI (Colli Ricci), Giuseppe, dei marchesi di Felizzano , Volume 27, 1982
5. ↑ [1]

predecessor	Office	successor
Federico Ciccodicola	Italian Chargé d'affaires in Addis Ababa 1907 to 1908	Giuliano Egidio Giuseppe Cora
Francesco Tomassini	Italian envoy in Stockholm from April 1, 1920 to October 1921	Alberto Bellardi Ricci
Vittore Cobianchi	Italian envoy in Buenos Aires October 6, 1921 to November 18, 1923	Luigi Aldrovandi Marescotti
Giuliano Egidio Giuseppe Cora	Italian envoy in Addis Ababa November 15, 1927 to 1928	Giuliano Egidio Giuseppe Cora