Liborio Angelucci
Liborio Angelucci | |
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Roman Republic | |
| In office 20 March 1798 – 30 September 1799 Serving with Ennio Quirino Visconti, Giacomo de Mattheis | |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Office abolished |
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| Born | 1746 Rome, Papal States |
| Died | 1811 (aged 65) Milan, Kingdom of Italy |
| Profession | Politician, physician |
Liborio Angelucci (born 1746, Rome; died 1811, Milan) was a Roman politician and physician.
Biography
He had an excellent reputation as a physician and obstetrician and as a scholar because he was editor of the first Roman edition of Dante's Divine Comedy.
He was among the first in Rome to accept ideas of French Revolution and one of the few who worked for it. He was in contact with
In May 1794, he was arrested on charges of relationships with France and plotting against Pius VI. Released from Castel Sant'Angelo on medical parole, he was in house arrest. Three years later (August 1797), he was arrested again for plotting to murder the Pope then released again as the result of French help following the treaty of Tolentino. He was now regarded as one of the pro-French party leader and he developed relationships with the new French Ambassador Eugène de Beauharnais.
From September 1797 to March 1798, after a brief stop in Milan where he saw
As soon as he came to power, he was far from meeting the patriotic and democratic expectations of his fellows, concerned primarily with his family economical position while avoiding French occupants offence.
Following numerous misappropriations, he was forced to resign but remained a prominent politician.
In September 1799, at the fall of
In 1809, when the French army occupied Rome, he went back home but he was kept out into the margins of public life by the Imperial administration.
He was a member of the Roman Republic National Institute (Istituto nazionale della Repubblica romana).[1]
He died on 1811.
Posthumous reputation
In
Bibliography
- De Felice, Enzo (1961). "Liborio Angelucci" (in Italian). Dizionario Biografico – Treccani. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
- Pirozzi, Luca. "Attività giornalistica e impegno rivoluzionario nella Roma di fine Settecento" (in Italian). Retrieved 28 July 2013.
References
- ^ Pepe, Luigi (1996). "L'Istituto nazionale della Repubblica romana" (in Italian). Persée. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
- ^ Susan Vandiver Nicassio (1999). "Ten Things You Didn't Know About Tosca". Retrieved 29 July 2013.
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