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BASSI, UGO (1800-1849)
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See also:BASSI, UGO (1800-1849) , See also:Italian patriot, was See also:born at See also:Cento, and received his See also:early See also:education at See also:Bologna. An unhappy love affair induced him to become a novice in the Barnabite See also:order when eighteen years old. He repaired to See also:Rome, where he led a See also:life of study and devotion, and entered on his See also:ministry in 1833. It was as a preacher that he became famous, his sermons attracting large crowds owing to their eloquence and genuine See also:enthusiasm. He lived chiefly at Bologna, but travelled all ovet See also:Italy See also:preaching and tending the poor, so poor himself as to be sometimes almost starving. On the outbreak of the revolutionary movements in 1848, when See also:Pope See also:Pius IX. still appeared to be a Liberal and an Italian patriot, Bassi, filled with See also:national enthusiasm, joined See also:General See also:Durando's papal force to protect the frontiers as See also:army See also:chaplain. His eloquence See also:drew fresh recruits to the ranks, and he exercised See also:great See also:influence over the soldiers and See also:people. When the pope discarded all connexion with the national See also:movement, it was only Bassi who could restrain the Bolognese in their indignation. At Treviso, where he had followed Guidotti's See also:volunteers against the Austrians, he received three wounds, delighted to See also:shed his See also:blood for Italy (12th of May, 1848). He was taken to See also:Venice, and on his recovery he marched unarmed at the See also:head of the volunteers in the fight at Mestre. After the pope's See also:flight from Rome and the See also:proclamation of the See also:Roman See also:republic, Bassi took See also:part with See also:Garibaldi's forces against the See also:French troops sent to re-establish the temporal See also:power. He exposed his life many times while tending the wounded under See also:fire, and when Garibaldi was forced to leave Rome with his volunteers the faithful See also: When the See also:legion See also:broke up Garibaldi escaped, but Bassi and a See also:fellow-Garibaldian, See also:Count Livraghi, after endless hardships; were captured near See also:Comacchio. On being brought before the papal See also:governor, Bassi said: " I am guilty of no See also:crime See also:save that of being an Italian like yourself. I have risked my life for Italy, and your See also:duty is to do See also:good to those who have suffered for her." The governor would have freed the prisoners; but he did not dare, and gave them over to an See also:Austrian officer. They were escorted to Bologna, falsely charged before a See also:court See also:martial with having been found with arms in their hands (Bassi had never See also:borne arms at all), and shot on the 8th of See also:August, 1849. Bassi is one of the most beautiful figures of the Italian revolution, a See also:gentle unselfish soul, who, although unusually gifted and accomplished, had an almost childlike nature. His See also:execution excited a feeling of horror all over Italy. Countess Martinengo gives a charming See also:sketch of his life in her Italian Characters (2nd ed., See also:London, 1901) ; see also Zironi, Vita del Padre Ugo Bassi (Bologna, 1879) ; F. Venosta, " Ugo Bassi, Martire di Bologna," in the See also:Pantheon dei See also:Martini Italiani (See also:Milan, 1863). (L. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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