Domenico Adamoli

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Domenico Adamoli was born in Varese in 1813 by Giuseppe and Massimilla Pellegrini Robbioni. Together with his son Giulio he participated in the second war of independence. In 1866 he was part of the Garibaldi General Staff, and in the following year in the tragic Romana campaign. He was mayor for several years of Besozzo, the original village of his wealthy family. Married to Lucia Prinelli of Milan, a fervent patriot. Domenico died in Besozzo on May 17, 1876.

Family/Spouse: Lucia Prinetti. Lucia (daughter of Giulio Prinetti and Giovanna Ciani) was born in 1818 in Milan, Milano, Lombardia, Italy; died in Oct 1864. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Born at Varese aforesaid 1840, died at Cairo, Egypt, 25 December 1926. Fought as a volunteer for Garibaldi in the Italian Independence War in 1859-60 and 1866-7 and became Captain. Author (1892) of 'Da. San Martino a Mentana' on those campaigns. At the time of his marriage was in the Italian Parliament. Sometime Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and a Senator. Chief Commissioner for Italy to the Chest of the Egyptian Public Debt for some years from 1907.



From Italian Biography Dictionary - Volume 1 (1960)
Born in Besozzo on 29 February. 1840 by Domenico, in 1857 he enrolled in the mathematics faculty of the University of Pavia. From here he gave the affectionate friendship that always linked him to the Cairoli family, especially to Benedict, and his first patriotic experiences.
He participated in the 1859 war as a volunteer in the “Granatieri di Sardegna”; Regiment. Subsequent, in January 1860 resigned from the army by reaching in May Garibaldi in Sicily with the expedition organized by A. Bertani and led by C. Agnetta; He did the whole campaign, distinguishing himself in the clashes of St. Leucio and S. Angelo. After completing the expedition he devoted engineering, entering the construction company of the Milan-Pavia railway. But in 1862 it was again with Garibaldi to Aspromonte; In 1866, with the battalion of Lombard bersaglieri, fought at Vezza d’Oglio, earning a silver medal. As soon as the conflict ended, he made a brief political trip to the United States with Mazzini and Garibaldi’s presentation letters. In September 1867 he was in Geneva with Garibaldi at the congress of peace; And, in the same year, participated in the expedition of Mentana.
From June 1869 to October 1870 he traveled to the Khirghisi and Turkestan steppes to study silkworm breeding systems. In 1876 he went to Morocco under the auspices of the Italian Geographic Society for the study of the economic situation of that country and the possible establishment of commercial farms on the Atlantic coast. After moving to political life, he was elected deputy in the Gavirate-Luino College in the same year instead of G. Ferrari (XIIth legislature); The Chamber was close to G. Zanardelli and A. Bertani.

Established in Rome, he was Counselor (1877-87, 1895-97, 1901-04) and Vice President (1887-95) of the Italian Geographic Society, promoting the African expeditions of O. Antinori, R. Gessi and P. Matteucci .
From 1893 to 1896 he was under Secretary of Foreign Affairs in Crispi Ministries and Nov. 19. 1898 was appointed senator. Since 1907, for twenty years, he was commissary of the State Debt Consolidation in Egypt, promoting the interests of the Italian colony and carrying out trips along the Nile and the Near East. He also devoted himself to port engineering studies.
His writings deserve special attention to the two volumes of memoirs, from San Martino to Mentana (Milan 1892), which occupies a remarkable place in Garibaldi's autobiographical literature, and episodes lived (articles largely released in New Anthology from 1873 to 1922, And collected by GA Esengrini, with P. Boselli, Prefect of Varese, 1929), interesting for geographic relations and the lively re-evocation of the parliamentary life of time.
He died in Cairo on 25 December. 1926.
Bibliography : G. Oddo, The Thousands of Marsala , Milan 1863, p. 464; G. Stiavelli, Garibaldi in Italian literature , Rome 1901, pp. 195-197; G. Castellini, Pagine garibaldine , Turin 1909, pp. 146 ss .; A. C [rippa], Sen. Gran Croce Giulio Adamoli , in Lombardy in the Italian Risorgimento , XII (1927), pp. 144-145; C. Spellanzon, Political World of a time he was , in Riv . Of Italy , XXX (1927), pp. 716-731.

See website (in Italian) http://www.adamoli.org/giulio/index.html

Giulio married Constance Jacqueline Gibbs in Dec 1879 in Genoa, Genova, Liguria, Italy. Constance (daughter of Charles Gibbs, of Genoa and Stuarta Brown) was born on 3 Feb 1857 in Genoa, Genova, Liguria, Italy; died after 1930. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1930, Varese, Lombardia, Italy

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Born at Besozzo aforesaid 30 January 1881. Living at Varese aforesaid 1930. One son Guilio, born 15 July 1908, died 15 August 1928 at Portofino; one daughter Rosetta born 11 February 1910, died 24 July 1933.

Emilia married Silvio Anacleto De Grandi on 30 Oct 1907 in Besozzo, Varese, Lombardia, Italy. Silvio (son of Luigi De Grandi and Rosa Perucchetti) was born about 1872 in Kiefflan? Hiflan?; died after 1930. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1930, Cairo, Egypt

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Born 30 July 1885, living 1930 at Cairo, Egypt.

Lucia married Erwin Adolf Laurent de Cramer in Sep 1913. Erwin (son of Ernest Conrad Joseph de Cramer and Amelie Perkins) was born on 16 Jun 1878 in Bornova, Izmir, Turkey; died on 13 May 1944 in Alexandria, Egypt. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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She had 2 sons, Charco born Milan 1918, missing in Russia; Massimo born Milan 1920. Living at Bosozzo 1930.

Sofia married Diego Brioschi on 16 Jul 1916 in Besozzo, Varese, Lombardia, Italy. Diego was born on 6 Feb 1865 in Milan, Milano, Lombardia, Italy; died after 1930. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]