List of personalities from Sessa TI

This list contains personalities born in Sessa and those who had their sphere of activity in Sessa without having been born there. The list does not claim to be complete.

Personalities

• Capitanei de Sessa. Longobard family, attested in Sessa from the 13th century

• Marchesi family
  • Domenico Marchese (* around 1720 in Sessa; † after 1778 there), chaplain of the Oratory Sant'Orsola, benefactor
• Azaria Püntener (* around 1520 in Altdorf; † after 1565 there), captain, bailiff of Lugano , lived in Sessa
• Ercole Bianchi (* around 1550 in Sessa; † after 1624 there), priest, benefactor
• Carlo Antonio De Marchi (* 1616 in Costa, fraction of the municipality of Sessa; † 1687 ibid), from Graglio , architect
• Carlo Antonio Ramponi (* around 1630 in Sessa; † after 1694 there), sculptor, altar builder
• Alessandro Zanetti (* XVIII century in Sessa; †? Ibid), plasterer
• Giandomenico Alberti (* around 1740 in Bedigliora ; † around 1810 there), priest, theologian, author
• Giuseppe Galeazzi (* around 1740 in Sessa; † after 1800 there), politician
• Paolo Galeazzi (* around 1765 in Sessa; † after 1830 there), leader of the Cisalpine party
• Antonio Andina (* around 1800 in Croglio ; † around 1860 there?), Priest, teacher in the first primary school in Sessa
• Giuseppe Donati (* 1858 in Molinazzo di Monteggio , † 1929 there), painter

• De Marchi family
  • Marc'Antonio de Marchi (* 1620 in Costa di Sessa; † before 1684 ibid), son of Domenico, owner of a house in Costa di Sessa, 1664 founder of the oratory Sant'Agata in Costa; May 6, 1667 he was in Versailles participant in a Genoese embassy to King Louis XIV.
  • Pietro de Marchi (* around 1640 in Costa di Sessa; † June 15, 1705 ibid), captain in the service of the King of Poland John III. Sobieski
  • Giovan Antonio de Marchi (* around 1660 in Costa di Sessa; †? In Rome ), captain in the service of the papal guard

• Bertogliatti family
  • Domenico Bertogliatti (* around 1700 in Sessa; † after 1751 in Madrid  ?), Foreman in Serralunga d'Alba and Madrid
  • Francesco Bertogliatti (* around 1720 in Sessa; † after 1781 in Warsaw  ?), Architect
  • Francesco Bertoliatti (* 1879 in Sessa; † 1951 in Chiasso), teacher, post office clerk, local historian, author
  • Benigno Bertoliatti (* 1887 in Sessa; † 1960 ibid), painter

Valentin Oehen (1986)

Ignazio Cassis (2015)

• Rossi family
  • Giovanni Gioachino Rossi (* 1704 in Moscow , † around 1770 in Saint Petersburg ), plasterer, architect.
  • Pietro Domenico Rossi (born March 17, 1778 in Sessa; † May 26, 1853 in Lugano), lawyer and notary, Ticino Grand Councilor , co-author of the Ticino civil code of 1837
  • Alessandro Rossi (sculptor) (1820-1891), sculptor, author
  • Ermenegildo Rossi (1827–1895), Ticino Grand Councilor, State Councilor and Council of States of the Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP)
  • Rinaldo Rossi (born March 25, 1845 in Sessa; † February 3, 1908 in La Chaux-de-Fonds ), engineer, Ticino Grand Councilor, Council of State
  • Giulio Rossi (born August 4, 1876 in Sessa, † November 18, 1943 in Sorengo) lawyer, historian, author, politician

• Trezzini family
  • Bernardo Trezzini (born July 15, 1851 in Sessa, † August 31, 1919 in Sacramento ), painter
  • Celestino Trezzini (1883–1967), priest, rector of the University of Freiburg, researcher

• Giuseppe Castelli (born May 21, 1827 in Lugano; † March 18, 1899 ibid), priest, pastor of Sessa, canon, archpriest of Lugano, apostolic administrator of Ticino
• Giuseppe Bianchi (* around 1870 in Lugano; † around 1935 there), secondary school teacher, author
• Virgilio Chiesa (1888–1971), secondary school teacher, local historian, author
• Antonio Pani (* 1895 in Sessa; † around 1961 there), secondary teacher, founder and member of the Società Pro Malcantone
• Valentin Oehen (* 1931) politician, national councilor, Ticino grand councilor, major, from 1979 manager of an estate in Sessa
• Giuseppe Zanetti (* 1941 in Sessa; † June 10, 2014 ibid), secondary teacher, mayor of Sessa, founder of the Piccolo Museo di Sessa
• Sergio Antonietti (born July 21, 1951 in Castelrotto ), former director of the secondary school in Lugano viale Cattaneo, politician (CVP) 2011–2019 mayor of Sessa.
• Ignazio Cassis (* 1961), doctor, politician, Federal Councilor , Foreign Minister of Switzerland
• Gianluca Airaghi (born August 9, 1968), doctor of law from the University of St. Gallen , member of the board of directors of Banca Raiffeisen in Lugano

Individual evidence

1. ^ Marina Bernasconi Reusser: de Sessa. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 1, 2011 , accessed February 3, 2020 .
2. ^ The Marchesi family in portal.dnb.de, accessed on May 21, 2016
3. ^ Domenico Marchese. In: Virgilio Chiesa : Lineamenti storici ... Curio 2002, p. 210.
4. ↑ August Püntener: Püntener. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . July 22, 2010 , accessed February 3, 2020 .
5. ↑ Ercole Bianchi. In: Virgilio Chiesa: Lineamenti storici del Malcantone. Gaggini-Bizzozero, Curio 2002, p. 222
6. ↑ Celestino Trezzini : Carlo Antonio De Marchi. Digitized version , accessed on May 1, 2017
7. ↑ Alessandro Zanetti. In: Virgilio Chiesa: Lineamenti storici ... Curio 2002, p. 210.
8. ^ Giandomenico Alberti. In: Virgilio Chiesa: Lineamenti storici 2002, p. 140
9. ↑ Celestino Trezzini: Giuseppe Galeazzi. P. 378 (PDF biblio.unibe.ch , accessed on October 21, 2017.)
10. ↑ Celestino Trezzini: Paolo Galeazzi. P. 378 (PDF biblio.unibe.ch , accessed on October 21, 2017.)
11. ^ Antonio Andina. In: Virgilio Chiesa: Lineamenti storici 2002, p. 223
12. ↑ Giuseppe Donati. In: Virgilio Chiesa: Lineamenti storici Curio 2002, p. 211
13. ↑ Marc'Antonio de Marchi. In: Antonio de Portugal de Faria: Note per la storia della famiglia de Marchi e del Comune di Astano sua patria. Livorno, Tipografia di Raffaello Giusti 1899, p. 15.
14. ↑ Celestino Trezzini: Pietro de Marchi. P. 51 (PDF biblio.unibe.ch , accessed on January 11, 2018.)
15. ↑ Celestino Trezzini: Giovan Antonio de Marchi. P. 51 (PDF biblio.unibe.ch , accessed on January 11, 2018.)
16. ↑ Ursula Stevens: Domenico Bertogliatti. In: tessinerkuenstler-ineuropa.ch. Retrieved February 26, 2016 . 
17. ↑ Francesco Bertogliatti. In: arch INFORM .
18. ↑ Francesco Bertoliatti. In: Virgilio Chiesa: Lineamenti storici Curio 2002, p. 255
19. ↑ Benigno Bertoliatti. In: Virgilio Chiesa: Lineamenti storici Curio 2002, pp. 210-211
20. ↑ ^{a b} Celestino Trezzini : Rossi. P. 707 (PDF biblio.unibe.ch , accessed on October 9, 2019)
21. ↑ Ursula Stevens: Giovanni Gioachino Rossi. In: tessinerkuenstler-ineuropa.ch. 2016, accessed April 8, 2016 . 
22. ^ Gianna A. Mina: Alessandro Rossi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 23, 2010 , accessed February 3, 2020 .
23. ^ Gianmarco Talamona: Ermenegildo Rossi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 12, 2010 , accessed February 3, 2020 .
24. ↑ Rinaldo Rossi. In: Virgilio Chiesa: Lineamenti storici ... Curio 2002, p. 210.
25. ^ Alberto Lepori, Fabrizio Panzera (ed.): Uomini nostri. Trenta biography di uomini politici. Armando Dadò Editore, Locarno 1989, p. 26.
26. ^ Aldo Crivelli: Necrologio. In: Rivista Storica Ticinese , Anno 6, N. 6, December 1946, Istituto Editoriale Ticinese, Bellinzona 1946, p. 857
27. ↑ Celestino Trezzini: Bernardo Trezzini. In: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Volume 7, Tinguely-Hungary. , Attinger, Neuenburg 1921, pp. 48, 49 ( digitized version ), accessed on May 1, 2017
28. ↑ Francesca Chiesi Ermotti: Celestino Trezzini. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 15, 2012 , accessed February 3, 2020 .
29. ^ Alberto Lepori, Fabrizio Panzera (ed.): Uomini nostri. Trenta biography di uomini politici. Armando Dadò Editore , Locarno 1989, page 18.
30. ↑ Giuseppe Bianchi. In: Virgilio Chiesa: Lineamenti storici Curio 2002, p. 228
31. ↑ Lineamenti storici del Malcantone (Italian) on museodelmalcantone.ch, accessed on November 15, 2016
32. ↑ Antonio Pani. In: Virgilio Chiesa: Lineamenti storici ... Curio 2002, pp. 228, 240.
33. ↑ Giuseppe Zanetti's death on ticinonews.ch/ticino/203548/
34. ↑ Sergio Antonietti sindaco di Sessa on ppd.ch/cariche-politiche