Giuseppe Rosaroll

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Giuseppe Rosaroll
Giuseppe Rosaroll
Giuseppe Rosaroll
Born(1775-09-16)16 September 1775
Naples
Died2 December 1825(1825-12-02) (aged 50)
Nafplion
OccupationItalian general

Giuseppe Maria Rosaroll-Scorza (16 September 1775 – 2 December 1825) was an Italian essayist and a general in the army of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. He was also the father of the Italian patriotic hero Cesare Rosaroll.

Military career

Born in Naples from a family of Swiss origin, he entered as a cadet in the

Italian Legion
.

Rosaroll fought in the Battle of Marengo, later joining the Army of the Cisalpine Republic. In Milan he wrote a treatise on the art of fencing, La scienza della scherma.[1]

He returned to Naples with General

Russian campaign
.

After the

Restoration (1815) Rosaroll received command of a brigade and then of the division of Messina from king Ferdinand I
. During this period he wrote numerous treatises on military techniques.

As commander of Messina in March 1821 he tried to organise the military forces of the Two Sicilies stationed in Sicily and Calabria to resist the Austrians who were entering the Kingdom in order to repress the Constitutional Revolt of 1820.

In order to escape his death sentence for this act (sentence of 27 February 1823), he fled to Spain, where he joined the ranks of the liberal constitutionalist forces from 1822 to 1823. When, in the spring of the 1823, the Spanish revolution was put down by the French Army, general Rosaroll moved again, first to England and then to Greece, where the Greek War of Independence was raging. According to historian T. Gerozisis, which is based on the testimony of Dionysios Romas and Fotakos, Rosaroll's old acquaintance and friend from Zante, Theodoros Kolokotronis, intended to make him commander of ground forces. Before the interim government enacted this, Rosaroll died of typhus in Nauplia.[2][3] His son César died fighting against the Austrians at Venice in 1849.

Historian of fencing Jacopo Gelli considered Rosaroll and Pietro Grisetti as the scions of the true "Scuola Napoletana" of fencing. Both were students of Tommaso Bosco e Fucile, who was a maestro of fencing in Naples.[citation needed]

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ Scorza, Rosaroll; Grisetti, Pietro (1803). La scienza della scherma. Stamperia del Giornale Italico. pp. 2–.
  2. ISBN 960-248-794-1
    ]
  3. ISBN 978-1-906924-00-3
    .

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