COLLI. - FRANCESCO di PAOLA, baron, pontifical general, b. at Alessandria in 1726, d. at Rome on 20 July 1802. An expert connoisseur of artillery, he entered the service of the Holy See as lieutenant colonel in May 1793, assisting the Bolognese general Enea Caprara in carrying out extensive reforms of the army.
His son, ANGELO, was also a student of ballistics, b. in the second half of the 18th century in Piedmont, and d. at Rome as a result of the hardships of the retreat from Russia in 1812.
When Rome was occupied by Berthier, he placed his services at the disposal of the Roman Republic as an attaché to the Ministry of War. On the return of Pius VII he was appointed commander of the fortress of S. Angelo with the rank of lieutenant colonel (July 1802). Following the new French occupation he was arrested by General Miollis, together with other loyal pontifical officers, and detained in Castel S. Angelo (1 March 1808). Having in the end entered the French ranks with the rank of colonel, he set out for Russia and in the disastrous retreat was the only senior officer of the arm who succeeded in saving the materiel entrusted to him.
Bibliography4 worksA. Da Mosto, Milizia dello Stato romano (1600-1797), in Memorie storiche militari, 10 (1914), pp. 546-65; P. Pagliucchi, I castellani del Ca
BIBL.: A. Da Mosto, Milizia dello Stato romano (1600-1797), in Memorie storiche militari, 10 (1914), pp. 546-65; P. Pagliucchi, I castellani del Castel S. Angelo, II, Rome 1928, pp. 161, 169, 177-81; P. Dalla Torre, Materiali per una storia dell'esercito pontificio, in Rass. storica del Risorg., 28 (1941), pp. 19, 31 and 32 of the offprint; id., L'opera riformatrice ed amministrativa di Gregorio XVI, in Gregorio XVI. Miscellanea commemorativa, II, Rome 1948, pp. 60-61.
Dalla, Torre Paolo. “Colli.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, col. 1984. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/colli.
MLA
Dalla, Torre Paolo. “Colli.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 1984. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/colli.
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@incollection{ec3_colli,
author = {Dalla, Torre Paolo},
title = {Colli},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {III},
pages = {1984},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1949},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/colli}
}
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