Luigi Mercatelli Explained

Luigi Mercatelli
Order1:Italian Commissioner-General of Somaliland
Term Start1:16 March 1905
Term End1:1906
Predecessor1:Giorgio Sorrentino (commissioner)
Successor1:Giuseppe Salvago Raggi
Order2:Italian Governor of Tripolitana
Term Start2:6 July 1920
Term End2:July 1921
Predecessor2:Vittorio Menzinger
Successor2:Giuseppe Volpi
Birth Date:21 October 1853
Birth Place:Alfonsine
Death Place:Rio de Janeiro
Nationality:Italian

Luigi Mercatelli (21 October 1853 – 4 April 1922) was an Italian politician, attorney and diplomatic.[1]

Biography

Luigi Mercatelli was born in Alfonsine (near Ravenna, Italy) in 1853. Graduated as lawyer in Ferrara, showed since young sympathies for the development of Italian colonialism. He was friend of Giovanni Pascoli and wrote for the newspapers "Il Corriere di Napoli" and Il Mattino of Napoli. Mercatelli participated in the Eritrea conquest in the 1890s, supporting the colonialism of Prime Minister Giovanni Giolitti.

He was initially named "Consul of Italy in Zanzibar in 1903 and the Commissioner-general of Italian Somaliland (1905–1906). After World War I was named Governor of Italian Tripolitania (1920–1921).

He was the Italian ambassador in Rio de Janeiro when he died in 1922.

See also

References

  1. https://alfonsinemonamour.racine.ra.it/alfonsine/Alfonsine/mercatelli.htm Biography of Luigi Mercatelli (in Italian)

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