Luigi Dottesio [SEP] place of death
Luigi Dottesio
Luigi Dottesio (14 January 1814 in Como – 11 October 1851 in Venice (then called Venezia)) was an Italian patriot who was very active in the distribution of anti-Austrian pamphlets, before and after 1848.
Intercepted by the gendarmes in Maslianico while he was trying to illegally cross the Swiss frontier, he was executed by Austrians in Venezia, in 1851.
First years.
He was born in Como on 15 January 1814, and his parents were Carlo and Antonietta Casartelli. The modest
of reference for the publication of patriotic works circulated clandestinely in Italy.
History Collaborators and authors.
The press enjoyed the collaboration of the Giuseppe Mazzinian Luigi Dottesio, who gave a notable impulse to the printing of books, periodicals and proclamations of Risorgimental patriots and exiles. 
The main authors published included Vincenzo Gioberti, Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi, Giuseppe La Farina, Niccolò Tommaseo, Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de Sismondi, Friedrich Schiller, Pietro Colletta, Cesare Balbo and Massimo d'Azeglio.
In 1851 Luigi Dottesio was arrested and executed by