Luigi Mercatelli

Luigi Mercatelli


Italian Commissioner-General of Somaliland
In office 16 March 1905 – 1906
Preceded by	Giorgio Sorrentino (commissioner)
Succeeded by	Giuseppe Salvago Raggi
Italian Governor of Tripolitana
In office 6 July 1920 – July 1921
Preceded by	Vittorio Menzinger
Succeeded by	Giuseppe Volpi
Personal details
Born	21 October 1853 Alfonsine
Died	April 4, 1922(1922-04-04) (aged 68) Rio de Janeiro
Nationality	Italian

Luigi Mercatelli (October 21, 1853 – April 4, 1922) was an Italian politician, attorney and diplomatic.^[1]

Biography

Luigi Mercatelli was born in Alfonsine (near Ravenna, Italy) in 1853. Graduated as lawyer in Ferrara, showed since young sympathies for the development of Italian colonialism. He was friend of Giovanni Pascoli and wrote for the newspapers "Il Corriere di Napoli" and Il Mattino of Napoli. Mercatelli participated in the Eritrea conquest in the 1890s, supporting the colonialism of Prime Minister Giovanni Giolitti.

He was initially named "Consul of Italy in Zanzibar in 1903 and the Commissioner general of Italian Somaliland (1905–06). After World War I was named Governor of Italian Tripolitania (1920–21).

He was the Italian ambassador in Rio de Janeiro when he died in 1922.

Notes

↑ Biography of Luigi Mercatelli (in Italian)

Sources

Treaccani enciclopedia: Luigi Mercatelli

Italian Governors of Eritrea and Somaliland

Governors of Eritrea (1890-1941)	Baldassarre Orero^cm Antonio Gandolfi^cm Oreste Baratieri^cm Antonio Baldissera Ferdinando Martini Giuseppe Salvago Raggi Giovanni Cerrina Feroni Giacomo De Martino Camillo De Camillis Ludovico Pollera Giovanni Cerrina Feroni Jacopo Gasparini Corrado Zoli Riccardo Di Lucchesi Ottone Gabelli^v Emilio De Bono Pietro Badoglio Alfredo Guzzoni^p Vincenzo De Feo^p Giuseppe Daodice^p Luigi Frusci^p

Governors of Somaliland (1889-1941)	Vincenzo Filonardi Vacant (1893-96) Vincenzo Filonardi^c Emilio Dulio^c Giorgio Sorrentino^c Emilio Dulio Luigi Mercatelli^cg Giuseppe Salvago Raggi^cg Tommaso Carletti^cg Tommaso Carletti Giacomo De Martino Giovanni Cerrina Feroni Carlo Riveri Cesare Maria De Vecchi Guido Corni Maurizio Rava Rodolfo Graziani Angelo De Ruben^p Ruggiero Santini^p Francesco Saverio Caroselli^p Gustavo Pesenti^p Carlo De Simone^p

cm=Commanders. c=Commissioners. cg=Commissioners-General. v=Vice-Governor. p=As a part of Italian East Africa

Italian Governors of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica

Governors of Tripolitania (1911–1934)	Raffaele Borea Ricci D'Olmo Carlo Caneva Ottavio Ragni Vincenzo Garioni Giorgio Cigliana Luigi Druetti Giulio Cesare Tassoni Giovanni Ameglio Vincenzo Garioni Vittorio Menzinger Luigi Mercatelli Giuseppe Volpi Emilio De Bono Pietro Badoglio^tc

Governors of Cyrenaica (1912–1935)	Ottavio Briccola Giovanni Ameglio Vincenzo Garioni Giacomo De Martino Luigi Pintor Eduardo Baccari Luigi Bongiovanni Ernesto Mombelli Attilio Teruzzi Domenico Siciliani^v Rodolfo Graziani^vh Guglielmo Nasi^vh

tc = G. of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica. v = Deputy of the G. of Cyrenaica (G. of Tripolitania). h = Honorary since 1-1-1934.

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Luigi Mercatelli

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