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Giulio Adamoli (Besozzo, February 29, 1840 - Cairo, December 25, 1926) was an Italian engineer, patriot and politician.

Biography

In 1857, he enrolled in the mathematics faculty of the University of Pavia, and during those years, a friendship with Benedetto Cairoli blossomed. He participated in the Second Italian War of Independence in 1859 as a volunteer in the 1st Regiment "Grenadiers of Sardinia", with whom he fought at Madonna della Scoperta during the Battle of San Martino.

A Second Lieutenant by rank, in January 1860 he resigned from the army, and in May he joined Giuseppe Garibaldi in Sicily, on the expedition organized by Agostino Bertani and led by Carmelo Agnetta. He took part in the entire campaign, distinguishing himself in the clashes at San Leucio and Sant'Angelo. After the expedition, he turned to engineering and joined the company constructing the Milan-Pavia railway.

However, in 1862, he was again with Garibaldi at Aspromonte (Day of Aspromonte), and in 1866, with the II Battalion of the Milanese riflemen, he fought at Vezza d'Oglio, earning a silver medal. Shortly after the conflict ended, he made a brief political trip to the United States, with introduction letters from Giuseppe Mazzini and Garibaldi.

In September 1867, he was in Geneva with Garibaldi at the peace congress; and, that same year, he participated in the battle of Mentana. From June 1869 to October 1870, he traveled through the steppes of the Kirghiz and in Turkestan, to study the silkworm rearing systems. In 1876, he went to Morocco under the auspices of the Italian Geographical Society, to study the economic situation of that country and the potential establishment of commercial farms on the Atlantic coast.

Elected as a deputy the same year, he became an undersecretary to the Foreign Affairs in the Crispi IV Government (from June 21, 1894) and was appointed senator on November 19, 1898. From 1907, for two decades, he was the commissioner of the Public Debt Fund in Egypt, promoting the interests of the Italian colony and traveling along the Nile and the Near East. He also devoted himself to port engineering studies. In 1912, he was the brainchild and executor of the Varese-Angera tramway, which was designed to connect the lower Verbano to the city of Varese, by establishing the S.A.T.O.V (Società Anonima Tramvie Orientali del Verbano).

Bibliography

Works

• From San Martino to Mentana - Memories of a Garibaldian Volunteer, Fratelli Treves Publishers, Milan, 1892
• Lived Episodes, Istituto Editoriale Cisalpino, Varese, 1929 (posthumous)
• I'm in America!: the letters of Giulio Adamoli to his father, Boston 1866-1867, Insubria University Press, Varese, 2005 (edited by Renzo Dionigi)