VIEUSSEUX, GIAMPIETRO. — Man of letters, b. 29 Sept. 1779 at Oneglia, d. 29 Apr. 1863 at Florence.
Of Genevan extraction, he first turned to commerce, then settled in Florence in 1819. A friend of the leading Italian men of letters of his day, he founded that scientific-literary circle for the diffusion of the sciences and culture of the time, which continued to exist even after the suppression in 1833 of the periodical l'Antologia, which he had founded in 1821. He was among the promoters, in 1841, of the Archivio storico italiano. On the eve of the Congress of Verona (1822) he submitted to the Austrian Minister in Florence a plan for an Italian confederation, which he revived in 1848. Later he favoured CAVOUR’s policy of unification.
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