Pietro Roselli

Pietro Roselli (photo around 1870)

May 14, 1849: Appointment of
Colonel Pietro Roselli as division general

Pietro Roselli (* 1798 in Rome , † 1885 in Ancona ) was an Italian lieutenant general.

Life

Lieutenant Roselli, a graduate of the military academy, was considered a talented soldier in the papal army . During the First Italian War of Independence , Captain Roselli led a battalion of volunteers against the Austrians in Veneto .

The Papal States at the beginning of 1849: On February 9, Mazzini proclaimed the Roman Republic . Pius IX from the Gaetaer exile asked the French for arms help with success. The Roman Republic recalled all of its troops in the face of the threat. Roselli arrived in April and was promoted from colonel to general a month later, and General Garibaldi's immediate military superior in the fight against the expeditionary corps under General Oudinot . Mazzini and the other two triumvirs Armellini and Saffi gave the command of the 11,500 armed forces of the republic to the Roman Roselli because the regular troops knew and accepted him. The three rulers viewed Garibaldi as a former sailor who ran along and commanded a group of northern Italians - strangers.

The defense of Rome came to an end in early July 1849 with a crushing defeat for the Italians. That was the end of the short-lived republic, the Pope ruled the Papal States again.

During the Second Italian War of Independence , Roselli became a lieutenant general . In 1860 he took part in the expulsion of the French occupation from Ancona and on this occasion freed his brother Ercole from forced labor. Until his retirement in 1865, Pietro Roselli asserted himself as the commandant of the military base in Ancona. He then stayed in Ancona and was buried there at his request. In 1886, out of gratitude, the city of Rome donated him a representative tomb on the Campo Verano .

literature

Ricarda Huch : The stories of Garibaldi . With an afterword by Günter Adler . 683 pages. Insel-Verlag, Leipzig 1986, © 1921 Insel-Verlag Leipzig, ISBN 3-7351-0006-6

Web links

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

Publications by or with the participation of Roselli in the Opac of the Italian library network Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale : manifestos, calls, bulletins (accessed November 25, 2014)

annotation

↑ The historian Ricarda Huch presents in the first part of their stories of Garibaldi those called reset Garibaldi behind Roselli as momentous mistake of Triumvirs out. Garibaldi's officers sometimes had to deal with contradicting orders from both generals (Huch, p. 101, 16. Zvu). And the logistics have not always been right. Sometimes Garibaldi should have attacked without the knowledge of his superior (Huch, p. 152, 15. Zvo). Roselli promptly complained: "... he had no order from me" (Huch, p. 157 center). Even about their preliminary victories, the two generals would have disagreed. What Garibaldi had stamped his victory, Roselli took as "misleading pseudo-movements" of the enemy (Huch, p. 157, 6. Zvu to p. 158, 14. Zvo). Garibaldi had requested fresh troops from Roselli towards the end of the fighting in vain (Huch, p. 190, 13th Zvu). Shortly before General Oudinot took Rome, a few Garibaldians left their positions when the rumor got around that Garibaldi was gone and that Roselli was now in command (Huch, p. 268, 10th Zvo).

personal data
SURNAME	Roselli, Pietro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian general
DATE OF BIRTH	1798
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rome
DATE OF DEATH	1885
Place of death	Ancona

[A1-1] The historian Ricarda Huch presents in the first part of their stories of Garibaldi those called reset Garibaldi behind Roselli as momentous mistake of Triumvirs out. Garibaldi's officers sometimes had to deal with contradicting orders from both generals (Huch, p. 101, 16. Zvu). And the logistics have not always been right. Sometimes Garibaldi should have attacked without the knowledge of his superior (Huch, p. 152, 15. Zvo). Roselli promptly complained: "... he had no order from me" (Huch, p. 157 center). Even about their preliminary victories, the two generals would have disagreed. What Garibaldi had stamped his victory, Roselli took as "misleading pseudo-movements" of the enemy (Huch, p. 157, 6. Zvu to p. 158, 14. Zvo). Garibaldi had requested fresh troops from Roselli towards the end of the fighting in vain (Huch, p. 190, 13th Zvu). Shortly before General Oudinot took Rome, a few Garibaldians left their positions when the rumor got around that Garibaldi was gone and that Roselli was now in command (Huch, p. 268, 10th Zvo).