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AGOSTINO BERTANI (1812-1886)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 810 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AGOSTINO See also:BERTANI (1812-1886)  , See also:Italian revolutionist, was See also:born at See also:Milan on the 19th of See also:October 1812 . He took See also:part in the insurrection of 1848, though opposed to the See also:fusion of See also:Lombardy with See also:Piedmont . During the See also:Roman See also:republic of 1849, he, as medical officer, organized the See also:ambulance service, and, after the fall of See also:Rome, withdrew to See also:Genoa, where he worked with See also:Sir See also:James See also:Hudson for the liberation of the See also:political prisoners of See also:Naples, but held aloof from the Mazzinian conspiracies . In 1859 he founded a revolutionary See also:journal at Genoa, but, shortly afterwards, joined as surgeon the Garibaldian See also:corps in the See also:war of 1859 . After Villafranca he became the organizer-inchief of the expeditions to See also:Sicily, remaining at Genoa after See also:Garibaldi's departure for See also:Marsala, and organizing four See also:separate volunteer corps, two of which were intended for Sicily and two for the papal states . See also:Cavour, however, obliged all to See also:sail for Sicily . Upon the arrival of Garibaldi at Naples, See also:Bertani was appointed secretary-See also:general of the See also:dictator, in which capacity he reorganized the See also:police, abolished the See also:secret service fund, founded twelve See also:infant asylums, suppressed the duties upon Sicilian products, prepared for the suppression of the religious orders, and planned the sanitary reconstruction of the See also:city . Entering See also:parliament in 1861, he opposed the Garibaldian expedition, which ended at See also:Aspromonte, but nevertheless tended Garibaldi's See also:wound with affectionate devotion . In 1866 he organized the medical service for the 40,000 Garibaldians, and in 1867 fought at Mentana . His See also:parliamentary career, though marked by zeal, was less brilliant than his revolutionary activity . Up to 187o he remained an agitator, but, after the liberation of Rome, seceded from the historic See also:left, and became See also:leader of the extreme left, a position held until his See also:death on the 3oth of See also:April 1886 . His See also:chief See also:work as See also:deputy was an inquiry into the sanitary conditions of the peasantry, and the preparation of the sanitary See also:code adopted by the See also:Crispi See also:administration .

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