Pietro Belly
Pietro Belly (* around 1735 in Piedmont ; † July 14, 1791 in Turin ) was an artillery officer , military engineer and mining scientist for the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont .
origin
His family, originally called "de Belly" or "de Bellis", came from Belley in the Bugey , which was ceded to France by the House of Savoy in the Treaty of Lyon in 1601 . The Belly family remained in the service of the Savoy and finally settled in Montiglio in Piedmont.
Life
After his military training, Pietro Belly completed a mining course in Saxony with four other officers , possibly with the founders of the Freiberg mining academy .
The later Italian royal house of Savoy acquired Sardinia in 1720 . Pietro Belly worked for a long time in the mining industry on the Mediterranean island. Between 1759 and 1762, he initiated the mines Montevecchio at Guspini and the foundry in Villacidro ( Berg Hauptmann ). From 1762 he was mining director in Sardinia. In this role he advocated total state control of the mining industry in Sardinia and hindered private initiatives. Belly even wanted to introduce forced labor in the pits, for which Quintino Sella later criticized him.
Belly earned merit in 1770 in the planning and construction of the village of Calasetta , which he laid out in a checkerboard pattern . The square in the center of the village is named after him today.
Belly was among the first corresponding members of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, founded in 1783 .
progeny
His son Giuseppe Belly became President of the Court of Cassation . Among the other descendants are some officers, including Colonel Giovanni Antonio Belly, the September 20, 1870 taking of Rome at Porta Pia , a Bersaglieri - Battalion led, and General Vittorio Belly, who in 1935 at the Ethiopia war as deputy Badoglio took part, in 1938 after the proclamation of the Italian race laws, however, resigned from active service at his own request.
literature
- Antonello Mattone, Piero Sanna: Settecento sardo e cultura europea: lumi, società, istituzioni nella crisi dell'antico regime. FrancoAngeli, 2007
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Belly, Pietro |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | De Belly, Pietro |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Piedmontese officer and mining scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 18th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Piedmont |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 14, 1791 |
| Place of death | Turin |