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Giovenale Vegezzi Ruscalla (4 December 1799, Turin, Italy - December 1885, Turin), was a liberal Italian journalist, foreign honorary member of the Romanian Academy, and secretary to the Subalpine Agrarian Association. He traveled to Transylvania and Banat on a study trip in 1830 and was an honorary citizen as a Romanian diplomat. He translated poems of the Romanian poet and playwright Vasile Alecsandri and taught a history course and Romanian literature at the University of Turin. At the Congress of Paris 1856 Vegezzi Ruscalla successfully debated in favour of Romanian independence (out of Moldavia and Wallachia).

Bibliography

  • Predescu, Lucian, Romanian Encyclopedia. Thinking, Saeculum Publishing, Bucharest, 1999 ISBN 973-9399-03-7
  • Suciu, Dumitru, Austro-history and national struggle of the Romanians in Transylvania (1848 - 1867), Albatros Publishing House, Bucharest, 2000 ISBN 973-24-0691-7 pp. 299–317

References

  1. "Giovenale Vegezzi Ruscalla - Enciclopedia României - prima enciclopedie online despre România" (in Romanian). Enciclopediaromaniei.ro. 2012-02-17. Retrieved 2012-06-08.
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