Giuseppe Montanelli

Giuseppe Montanelli (21 January 1813 – 17 June 1862) was an Italian statesman and writer.

Biography Montanelli was born at Fucecchio, then part of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. As a boy he was an organist and composer. In 1840, he was appointed law professor at Pisa after graduating law school when he was 18.

After being liberated, Montanelli returned to Tuscany, and the grand duke Leopold II, knowing that he was popular with the masses, sent him to Livorno to quell the disturbances. In October, Leopold, much against his inclinations, asked him to form a ministry. He accepted, and on January 10, 1849, induced the grand duke to establish a national constituent assembly. But Leopold, alarmed at the turn affairs were taking, fled from Florence, and Montanelli, Guerrazzi and Mazzini were elected "triumvirs" of Tuscany. Like Mazzini, Montanelli advocated the union of Tuscany with Rome.

On the formation of the Kingdom of Italy, he returned to Tuscany and was elected a member of parliament. Montanelli died at Fucecchio in 1862. Although it has been reported that Indro Montanelli, the 20th-century Italian journalist, is the grandson of Montanelli, there is in fact no relation between the two. Montanelli had no children, and the family name was passed down through his sister as Gori-Montanelli.

Works Memorie sui l'Italia e specialmente sulla Toscana dat 1814 at 1850 (Turin, 1853–55; translated into French, 2 vols., Paris, 1857) Il Partito nazionale italiano (1856) L'Impero, il papato, e la democrazia in Italia (1859) Dell' ordinamento nazionale in Italia (1862) La Tentazione (poem) Camma (tragedy written for Adelaide Ristori while she was acting in Paris) He translated Ernest Legouvé's Médée, also on behalf of Ristori.