Antonio Mordini

Antonio Mordini ( Barga, 31 May 1819 - Montecatini, 14 July 1902 ) was an Italian patriot and member of the Parliament of the Kingdom of Italy.[1] He was Minister of Public Works of the Kingdom of Italy during the Menabrea III Cabinet .

Portrait of Antonio Mordini

Biography

His career began in 1848, when he sided with left wing opponents to the government policy of Daniele Manin.[2] Expelled from his hometown of Barga , he moved to Florence Hr he coordinated the activities of the Republicans who urged the union of Tuscany with the Roman Republic and criticized the cautionary union between separate administrations of the then government. Following the escape of the Grand Duke of Tuscany (in 1849), Mordini was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs from the already mentioned government in charge. When Leopold II returned, he had to move to London.[3]

On 6 February 1853, he began to develop ideas of annexation of Piedmont to the grand duchy, and enlisted in the 1859 war, he voted for the annexation of the Turin region during the Armistice of Villafranca. He was elected as a deputy to the Subalpine Parliament and met Giuseppe Garibaldi in Monreale. After the "Spedizione dei Mille" he became the Governor of Sicily (September–December 1860) and summoned the annexation plebiscite.[4]

In 1862 he was initiated in the Loggia "Dante Alighieri" of Turin and in 1864 he was elected member of the Grand Orient of Italy by the Masonic Constituent Assembly of Florence, reached the 33rd and last degree of the Ancient Scottish Rite and accepted and he was a member of the Grand Consistory for the Po Valley. He returned to being the Deputy Prefect of Naples from 1872 to 1876, he monitored the Scandal of the Banca Romana (in 1893) as president of the finance commission. In 1896 Mordini was proclaimed a Senator for life by the Kingdom of Italy.[5]

Honors
  • Knight of the Grand Cross decorated with the Great Cordon of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus
  • Knight of the Grand Cross decorated with the Great Cordon of the Order of the Crown of Italy
  • Knight of the Order of the White Eagle (Empire of Russia)

Bibliography
  • Giancarlo Poidomani, Antonio Mordini (Barga, 1 giugno 1819 - Montecatini Valdinievole, 15 luglio 1902), su Regione Siciliana. I 150 anni dalla spedizione dei mille. Biografie, 2010. URL consultato l'8 aprile 2014.
  • Vittorio Gnocchini, L'Italia dei Liberi Muratori. Brevi biografie di Massoni famosi, Mimesis-Erasmo, Milano-Roma, 2005, p. 191.
  • Luigi Polo Friz, Una voce. Ludovico Frapolli. I fondamenti della prima massoneria italiana, Ed. Arktos, Carmagnola, 1998, p. 13.
  • Dizionario biografico degli italiani, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana.

References
  1. "Antonio Mordini". Museum of the Risorgimento. Retrieved January 6, 2021.
  2. "antonio mordini – barganews.com v 3.0". www.barganews.com. Retrieved Feb 5, 2021.
  3. "Dalla rivoluzione al governo. La sinistra di Antonio Mordini nell'età della destra 1861-1869: La sinistra di Antonio Mordini nell'età della destra 1861-1869". FrancoAngeli. Feb 5, 2014. Retrieved Feb 5, 2021 – via Google Books.
  4. "Dalla rivoluzione al governo. La sinistra di Antonio Mordini nell'età della destra 1861-1869: La sinistra di Antonio Mordini nell'età della destra 1861-1869". FrancoAngeli. Feb 5, 2014. Retrieved Feb 5, 2021 – via Google Books.
  5. "Antonio Mordini e il terzo partito | pacinifazzi". Retrieved Feb 5, 2021.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.