Antonio Carlo Napoleone Gallenga

Antonio Carlo Napoleone Gallenga (* November 4, 1810 in Parma, † December 17, 1895 ) was an English writing Italian writer, irredentist, MP and journalist.

Life

Antonio Gallenga operational for two years medical studies at the University of Parma, but threw himself early in the maelstrom of political agitation and had to go into exile in 1831. He stepped into the secret society Giovine Italia and the took over youth fanaticism of the Mazzinists the order to kill the King Charles Albert; at the crucial moment he lacked the courage, and he now had to flee even before the daggers of his comrades. Now he toured southern Italy, then Malta, America, England. He took the name Luigi Mariotti and published under this first:

  • Oltremonte ed Oltremare. Canti di un Pellegrino. Dati in luce da L. Mariotti ( Boston & London 1844), further
  • The Blackgown Papers (London, 1846, 2 vols ) and
  • Italy past and present (London 1846).

In 1848 he returned to Italy and was the party of the moderate liberals in Piedmont. His point designated the letters A che ne siamo? Pensieri di un Italiano d' oltremonti (1849 ). After the unfortunate outcome of the revolution again settled in London, he published there, always under the name Mariotti: Scenes from Italian life ( 1850); Italy in 1848 ( 1851). He also wrote journal articles and taught language courses. His " Practical grammar of the Italian language " to use the English ( A practical grammar of the italian language ) (London 1851) experienced ten editions. In 1853 he published: A historical memoir of Fra Dolcino and his times.

At the invitation of Cavour following, G. again tried his luck in the country and was elected to Parliament, but had his mandate as a result of embarrassment, which gave him the Mazzinists by their revelations after their grudges recently by the way he in the meantime published book History of Piedmont ( London 1855; Italian, Turin 1856, 2 vols ) left out about his former relationship with the party itself, had challenged resign.

He retired after Castellamontes in Piedmont, but soon again to England; In 1858 he again went to Italy and was there working as a Member of Parliament and rapporteur of the London Times, which entrusted him in the episode with various programs.

In 1874 he accompanied the King of Italy to Berlin and Vienna. Later he lived at Llandogo in Wales.

Publications

  • Country Life in Piedmont ( 1858)
  • The Invasion of Denmark ( 2 vols, 1864)
  • The Pearl of the Antilles (1873; Italian, Milan 1874)
  • Italy Revisited (1875, 2 vols )
  • Two years of the Eastern Question (1877, 2 vols )
  • The Pope and the king: The war in between church and state in Italy (1879, 2 vols )
  • South America ( 1881)
  • A Summer Tour in Russia ( 1882)
  • Iberian reminiscences: Fifteen years' traveling impressions of Spain and Portugal (1883, 2 ​​vols )
  • Episodes of my Second Life (1884, 2 vols )
  • L' Italia presente e futura (Florence 1886)
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