Agostino Bertani
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Agostino Bertani (19 October 1812 – 10 April 1886) was an Italian
Italian unification
.
Revolutionary
Bertani was born in
Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.[1]
With the outbreak of the
Roman Republic of 1849, where as medical officer, organized another ambulance service similar to one he had established previously in Milan. After the fall of Rome, he withdrew to Genoa, where he worked with James Hudson, a British diplomat and supporter of Italian independence, for the freedom of Neapolitan political prisoners. [2]
In 1859 he founded a revolutionary journal at Genoa.
At the outbreak of the
Mazzini and Garibaldi.[3]
When Garibaldi took
expedition against Rome. After Garibaldi was defeated at the Battle of Aspromonte in 1862, he treated Garibaldi's wounds. In 1866, during the Third Italian War of Independence, he organized the medical service for the 40,000 Garibaldians, and the following year fought at the Battle of Mentana.[2]
Life in parliament
In 1866, Bertani founded a journal for social reform called La Riforma.
Bertani's parliamentary career was less successful than his revolutionary activity. After the capture of Rome in 1870 he became the leader of the extreme left in the new Italian parliament. His chief work as deputy was an inquiry into the sanitary conditions of the peasantry, and the preparation of the sanitary code adopted by the administration of
transformismo" by Agostino Depretis in 1876, drawing ministers from the right and left, Bertani refused to enter the government. [2]
In 1885, along with Umberto I
, and denounced his prison conditions.
Bertani remained in parliament until his death on 10 April 1886.
References
- ^ Rivista enciclopedica contemporanea, Editore Francesco Vallardi, Milan, (1913), entry by Alberto Blanche, page 8.
- ^ a b c d Chisholm 1911.
- ^ Rivista enciclopedica contemporanea], page 9.
- Attribution
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bertani, Agostino". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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