Giovanni Bruzzo

Giovanni Bruzzo (15 August 1824 in Genoa – 28 July 1900 in Turin) was an Italian general and politician. He was a senator of the Kingdom of Italy from and Minister of War in the first Cairoli government. At the same time he directed the construction of a model military gunpowder factory in Fossano. He was promoted major in 1859, lieutenant colonel in 1860 and colonel in 1861, subsequently in charge of the military engineers of Ancona and Bologna.

From 1863 to 1865 he was second in command and director of studies at the Military Academy of Turin, and in 1864 he was made a member of the Superior Council for military education and military education institutes. The government had a short and troubled life; at the end of October Bruzzo, who had already protested over the government's tolerance towards the republican unrest in Romagna, resigned, not sharing Cairoli's liberal attitude to public order. In 1892 he moved into an auxiliary position and on 28 July 1900 he died in Turin.

Works Sulla Necessità di Procedere alla Difesa d'Italia, Naples 1870 Considerazioni sulla Difesa Generale d'Italia, Florence 1870 Considerazioni sulla Difesa Generale d'Italia con Modificazioni e Aggiunte, Naples 1871 La Difesa dello Stato. Poche Osservazioni del Generale Bruzzo Bologna 1884 Altre Osservazioni sulla Difesa dello Stato e Risposta alla "Rivista Militare Italiana", Bologna 1884

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