Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso

Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso ( born July 28, 1808 in Milan, † July 5, 1871 in Locate, Italy) was an Italian freedom fighter, historian and journalist.

Life

The daughter of Gerolamo Trivulzio (1778-1812) and Vittoria dei Marchesi Gherardini (1790-1836) was born as Cristina Trivulzio. At age 16 she married on 24 September 1824 in Milan's Church of San Fedele Prince Emilio Barbiano di Belgiojoso.

Both the own family and her husband were members of the Northern Italian rebel groups who wanted to rid the country of the Austrian- Habsburg rule. Also Cristina enthusiastic about these ideas. After four years, she left her husband and devoted himself entirely to the freedom movement, the Risorgimento. Cristina wrote pamphlets of resistance and was active as a messenger and Passfälscherin. Before the persecution by the people of Austrian chancellor Metternich fled under adventurous circumstances to Marseilles, where she was accepted by the community of Italian emigrants. 1831 she moved from there to Paris. The Centre can be literary and political salon in the Rue d' Anjou became a magnet for exiled Italians. There she met, among others Lafayette to meet in March 1833 Heinrich Heine. From 1834 onwards, she combined with Heine a lifelong close friendship. He held frequently in her Paris home and in their castle La Jonchère at Bougival. In February 1834 also supported the Freikorps by Giuseppe Mazzini particularly generous - with the support of German and Polish colleagues had Mazzini guerrillas planned an invasion of Savoy, but this was nipped in the bud; Mazzini fled to Paris.

In Paris, Belgiojoso also turned to the writing of history, particularly stimulated by the historian François- Auguste Mignet, with whom she had a long relationship, and probably was also the father of the 1838 -born daughter Marie. From 1836 she ran a literary salon, which also Honoré de Balzac, Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt and Alfred de Musset wrong.

After a general amnesty at the beginning of the 1840 Belgiojoso was the first time back in their beloved homeland and continued to commute between Paris and Locate in Milan again. During this time she wrote several great historical works on the history of Lombardy and the Austrian foreign rule and on the origin of Catholic dogma. The work on the dogma came to the papal index and could appear only in France. Next was Belgiojoso the freedom struggle closely linked, and when the Revolution broke out in 1848, she was in Rome in the middle of the action. They even upgraded from a volunteer corps. But even this attempt failed because the French army saved the Papal States. Disappointed by France Cristina walked out with her daughter and a nanny in Turkey and moved to an agricultural community of Italian emigrants. There she wrote works on Turkish culture. The mid-1850s she was able to return to Milan, where she remained active as a writer. 1861 Camillo Cavour met her dream: Italy became an independent nation-state. Ten years later, she died 63 years old at the family seat in Locate.

Works

• Essai sur la formation du dogme catholique ( German: Essay on the emergence of Catholic dogma ), 4 volumes, 1846
• Emina, 1856
• Asie mineure et Syrie ( German: Asia Minor and Syria, a travel report), 1858
• Scènes de la vie Turque ( German: scenes of Turkish life ), 1858
• Histoire de la maison de Savoie ( German: History of the House of Savoy ), 1860
• Della presente delle donne e del loro condizione avvenire, ( German: thoughts on the situation and future of Italy ) 1866