DELLA TORRE, DISMA. – Journalist, born in Genoa on 12 September 1820 into the noble house of the Counts of Lavagna, died there on 17 November 1891. He began his studies at the seminary of Genoa and completed them with the Somascan Fathers of S. Maria in Aquiro in Rome. He was ordained a priest there around 1848. Returning to Genoa, he officiated in the church of the Maddalena and later became primicerius of the Archconfraternity of the Trinity of Pilgrims at the Pammatone hospital.
In 1860 he founded the weekly La Liguria and in 1862 the daily La Specola. In opposition to the prevailing liberalism, he championed the strictest Catholic principles, at times erring on the side of conservatism. In those periodicals he devoted not only his learning and his work but also his considerable fortune, until he was reduced almost to poverty. In the final years of his life he was rector of the small rural parish of Nasche near Genoa. Ireneo Daniele