Pietro Sterbini

Pietro Sterbini (born January 25, 1793 in Sgurgola ; † October 1, 1863 in Naples ) was an Italian doctor, journalist, politician and, in his younger years, an active carbonaro during the Risorgimento .

Life

Sterbini first attended the Episcopal Seminary in Veroli . He then studied medicine at the University of Rome and obtained a degree in surgery .

In 1821 Sterbini led insurgents in the Marche , Romagna and Umbria . His intended march on Rome became known to the papal police. With a forged passport, Sterbini managed to escape via Tuscany to Corsica . In 1835 he became one of Mazzini's supporters in Marseille , where he worked as a journalist for Young Italy .

In 1846 he was by Pope Pius IX. pardoned and returned to Rome. Together with Massimo d'Azeglio , he proposed administrative reforms to the Pope.

After the assassination attempt on Pellegrino Rossi on November 15, 1848, he became Minister of Commerce in the government of the Papal States. In this post he was also responsible for the award of public works.

On February 9, 1849, Mazzini proclaimed the Roman Republic . The Pope fled to Gaeta . Sterbini was a member of the Constituent Assembly and became Minister for Public Works in the Provisional Government - so he continued the above-mentioned public works award. On March 8th, he left the government and took over the supervision of public institutions - for example museums and libraries.

At the beginning of July 1849, the expeditionary force under General Oudinot , called into the country by the Pope, put an end to the Roman Republic. Sterbini fled to Paris via Sicily . He published poems in the metropolis on the Seine . During the last years of his life, Sterbini worked as a journalist in Naples.

literature

Ricarda Huch : The stories of Garibaldi . With an afterword by Günter Adler . Insel, Leipzig 1986, ISBN 3-7351-0006-6 .
Pierer's Universal Lexicon . Volume 16, Altenburg 1863, pp. 779-780 ( Pietro Sterbini at Zeno.org ).

Web links

James Chastain, Ohio State University : Sterbini, Pietro (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Ital. Deputati dell'Assemblea Costituente della Repubblica Romana

annotation

↑ Despite his early withdrawal from government affairs, Sterbini had a say in the constituent assembly, except for the last. In the first part of her stories of Garibaldi, the historian Ricarda Huch tells a related incident from the last days of the Roman Republic. At the meeting on June 26, 1849 - a few days before the end of the republic on the soil of the Papal States - Sterbini is the only one of the numerous speakers who wants to proclaim Garibaldi dictator at the hour of need. There is no applause. The opponents remind him of his opposite stance on April 30, 1849 on this question. Sterbini is not deterred. He replied - “eloquently and heatedly” as he was - that since the “bourgeois regiment was wavering”, the sword must now rule alone. (Huch, p. 257, 7. Zvu to p. 258, 10. Zvu)

personal data
SURNAME	Sterbini, Pietro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian freedom fighter in the Risorgimento
DATE OF BIRTH	January 25, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sgurgola
DATE OF DEATH	October 1, 1863
Place of death	Naples

[1] Ital. Deputati dell'Assemblea Costituente della Repubblica Romana

[A1-2] Despite his early withdrawal from government affairs, Sterbini had a say in the constituent assembly, except for the last. In the first part of her stories of Garibaldi, the historian Ricarda Huch tells a related incident from the last days of the Roman Republic. At the meeting on June 26, 1849 - a few days before the end of the republic on the soil of the Papal States - Sterbini is the only one of the numerous speakers who wants to proclaim Garibaldi dictator at the hour of need. There is no applause. The opponents remind him of his opposite stance on April 30, 1849 on this question. Sterbini is not deterred. He replied - “eloquently and heatedly” as he was - that since the “bourgeois regiment was wavering”, the sword must now rule alone. (Huch, p. 257, 7. Zvu to p. 258, 10. Zvu)