ACCURSI, MICHELANGELO. - Also called Michele, conspirator, b. in Rome in 1802. A curial official of the Innocentian tribunal of the Segnatura di giustizia, he was a Carbonaro and after 1830 maintained correspondence with Mazzini and was a member of the Roman congregation of the "Giovine Italia" directed by Enrico Mayer. As secretary to General Sercognani, A. took part in the risings of '31 and was arrested in Rome in Nov. '32. He declared himself a federate, but confessed that he repented of his recent conduct, promising, should his liberty be restored to him, to inform the pontifical government of the designs of the "Giovine Italia." Gregory XVI gave credence to these words and had him released in March 1833. Having gone to Paris and Geneva, he informed the Roman government of the various Mazzinian attempts. In 1836 Mazzini began to suspect him, but nothing positive could be found, and relations between A. and Mazzini again became cordial. In the spring of '48 he returned to Rome and held the office of assessor general, but by Pellegrino Rossi, to whom his relations with the Mazzinian party were hateful, he was sent on a mission abroad with the task of studying the penitentiary system of the other European states. Elected deputy to the Roman Constituent Assembly in the supplementary elections of 24 Feb. 1849 together with Mazzini, Saliceti, Cernuschi, Dall'Ongaro and others, after the fall of the republic he took refuge in France and Switzerland.
Bibliography2 worksOn A. there is lacking not only a critical monograph, but even an elementary collection of his biographical data. This also explains the div
BIBL.: On A. there is lacking not only a critical monograph, but even an elementary collection of his biographical data. This also explains the divergences of fact existing between the two authors who above all have dealt with him, the first exploiting a document of the Vatican Archive, the second others of the Archivio di Stato di Roma: I. Rinieri, Le cospirazioni mazziniane nel cartaggio di un transfuga, in Il Risorgimento Italiano, 16 (1923), pp. 173-212, 439-98 and 21 (1928), pp. 33-71; E. Ovidi, Dis. Risorg. Naz., II, Milan 1930, pp. 6-7.
Furlani, Silvio. “Accursi, michelangelo.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, col. 204. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/accursi-michelangelo.
MLA
Furlani, Silvio. “Accursi, michelangelo.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, col. 204. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/accursi-michelangelo.
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@incollection{ec1_accursi_michelangelo,
author = {Furlani, Silvio},
title = {Accursi, michelangelo},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {I},
pages = {204},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1948},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/accursi-michelangelo}
}
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