Francesco Borgatti

Francesco Borgatti (30 May 1818 – 14 April 1885) was an Italian politician and magistrate.

Early life Borgatti was born in Corporeno, Ferrara, the son of Giuseppe Borgatti and Maria Bitelli. He obtained a law degree from the University of Bologna in 1842 and as well as practicing law, he collaborated in the publishing of Il Panorama, an artistic- and literary periodical published in Rome in 1846. He then joined Michele Mannucci in publishing La Speranza, a political newspaper of moderate tendencies.

Borgatti began his political career in his native Papal States following the election of Pius IX. In May 1848 he was entrusted with the general secretariat of the Papal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a position he also held during the Roman Republic. After the French army seized Rome, he was forced to abandon the city and went back to Bologna and to his legal work, only returning to political activity in June 1859.

Borgatti died in Florence on 14 April 1885, at the age of 66.

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