Pietro Ripari

Pietro Ripari

Pietro Antonio Ripari (born July 18, 1802 in Solarolo Rainerio , † March 15, 1885 in Rome ) was an Italian doctor and journalist. From March 22, 1867 to November 2, 1870 the freedom fighter sat in the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Italy .

Life

Pietro, the second of five children, grew up in a wealthy family of small landowners. First he studied with the anatomist Bartolomeo Panizza at the University of Padua . Then he chooses at the University of Pavia , the specialist Clinical Surgery and closes his studies in 1827 with a thesis on the use of mercury chloride in the treatment of syphilis from.

Ripari then worked as a doctor for twenty years. During this time he got to know the ideas of Mazzini and those of the Carbonari . During his commitment to the unity of Italy , he gave up his practice in 1847. He met Garibaldi in Milan .

During the short lifetime of the Roman Republic - Garibaldi fought in vain in the spring of 1849 against the expeditionary force under General Oudinot , which Pius IX, who had fled to Gaeta . had called into the country - Ripari will rise to Garibaldi's personal physician in three months. When the defeated Garibaldi left Rome for Tuscany at the beginning of July 1849 , Ripara stayed with the Italian wounded in Rome, was imprisoned by the papal police on August 8, 1851 and sentenced by the judiciary of the Cardinal Secretary of State Antonelli to twenty years in prison on May 2, 1851 . Not in vain do friends - like Enrico Cernuschi - ask Napoleon III. , the victor of the Roman Republic, for mercy for Ripari. The prisoner, languishing in prison camps near Ancona and Paliano , was released on October 14, 1856 and fled to London via Paris. As a journalist in London, Ripari denounces Cardinal Antonelli in Lettere al Cardinale Antonelli . At the beginning of 1850, after the Pope returned to Rome, Antonelli had the Italian Republicans mercilessly persecuted by the police.

In 1860 Ripari took part in Garibaldi's expedition of a thousand through Sicily and worked as a surgeon at the Battle of Calatafimi and then on the mainland near Naples at the Battle of Volturno .

In the fight for the unity of Italy Garibaldi end of August 1862 takes from his island of Caprera made another attempt the Papal States to eliminate. Garibaldi's lord, King Viktor Emanuel II , has this campaign, which starts in Sicily, stop in southern Calabria near Aspromonte . Garibaldi is injured in the foot and taken to La Spezia . Ripari accompanies the wounded man, but does not operate on him. In La Spezia, Professor Ferdinand Zannetti from Florence removes the ball from the foot.

Although Garibaldi won the battle at Bezzecca against the Austrians on July 21, 1866 , he lost again to the French at Mentana on November 3, 1867 when he wanted to decide the Roman question according to his ideas. Ripari is elected to the parliament of the parliamentary monarchy Italy for Pescarolo .

Ripari outlives Garibaldi by three years. Both freedom heroes rest on the Campo Verano .

Honors

• Military Order of Savoy for his service in the battles of Calatafimi and on the Volturno.

Three portraits by Pietro Ripari

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Fonts

• Nuova Teoria Medica - Discorso sull'infiammazione , 1842
• Article in L'Italia del Popolo , Milan, May to August 1848
• Tradimenti e Colpe , Lugano, 1848
• Lettere al Cardinale Antonelli , Tipografia Fratelli Borroni, Milan 1860
• Article in Corriere Cremonese , Cremona , May to October 1860
• Storia medica della grave ferita toccata in Aspromonte dal Generale Garibaldi , Tipografia Gaetano Bozza, Milan 1863
• Una Pagina di Storia , Libero Pensiero, Florence 1870

Web links

Commons : Pietro Ripari  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Entry in the Portale storico of the Camera dei deputati: Xth legislative period
2. ↑ eng. Bartolomeo Panizza
3. ↑ eng. Battle of Aspromonte
4. ↑ Ital. Ferdinando Zannetti
5. ↑ eng. Battle of Mentana
6. ^ Collegio Pescarolo
7. ^ Italian. The text online in the Internet Archive