Pietro Rossi (politician)

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Pietro Rossi (born May 5, 1765 in Lugano ; † December 11, 1838 there ) was a Swiss military and politician.

Life

Petro Rossi was postal director in Lugano until 1806. He became supreme commander of the Lugano Volunteer Corps and was one of the masterminds of the counter-revolution of 1799 in Lugano, when anti-French riots broke out from April 28 to 29, 1799, during which the Agnelli printing works were plundered and the priest Giuseppe Vanelli, editor of the newspaper Gazetta di Lugano , as well as other Cisalpines were killed, whereupon a provisional Austrian-friendly government took power, which did not allow a reopening of the printing house. The Gazzetta di Lugano was a newspaper that published news and political documents from the French Revolution in Milan , Venice and Italian-speaking Switzerland , although both cities were subject to Austrian censorship.

Without any experience in the printing trade, Pietro Rossi opened the Rossi & Co. printing company on behalf of Luigi Veladini in 1799 and until 1806 published the Telegrafo delle Alpi newspaper written by the Capuchin Father Carl Antonio Guioni ; after protests by the Italian viceroy Eugène de Beauharnais , however, he had to stop selling the newspaper.

He was an enemy of the Helvetic Republic and the French and was active as a spy for both the Austrian and later the English governments.

In 1801 he became city ​​president of Lugano and represented the conservatives in the Ticino Grand Council from 1813 to 1815 .

literature

Web links

  • Pietro Rossi . In: Mostra Bibliografia ticinese. L'arte della stampa in Ticino tra '700 e' 800. (it.)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fabrizio Mena: Stamperie ai margini d'Italia: editori e librai nella Svizzera italiana, 1746-1848 . P. 109 f. Edizioni Casagrande, 2003, ISBN 978-88-7713-384-7 ( google.de [accessed September 7, 2019]).
  2. Rudolf Hanhart: Tales from Swiss history based on the chronicles . P. 628 f. Schweighauser'sche Buchhandlung, 1847 ( google.de [accessed September 7, 2019]).
  3. ^ Fabrizio Mena: Agnelli. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 9, 2001 , accessed April 11, 202 .
  4. Eva Camenisch Luisoni: Veladini. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . July 27, 2011 , accessed April 11, 2020 .