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21-605: The city of Saluzzo is built on a hill overlooking a vast, well-cultivated plain. Iron, lead, silver, marble, slate etc. are found in the surrounding mountains. On 1 January 2017 it had a population of 17.581 Saluzzo was the birthplace of the writer Silvio Pellico and of typographer Giambattista Bodoni . Saluzzo (Salusse in Piedmontese ) was a civitas (tribal city state) of the Vagienni, or mountain Ligures , and later of

42-724: A covering made up of cross vaults, while the Baroque high altar with its large impact is of great impact eleven wooden statues by Carlo Giuseppe Plura and collaborators. In the central nave, you can admire a precious fourteenth-century wooden crucifix. To the left of the main altar is the Chapel of the SS. Sacramento, with a polyptych by the Flemish artist of French origin Hans Clemer , better known as Maestro d'Elva. The Marquisate of Saluzzo

63-517: A museum where you can read the motto "right whatever it is." [REDACTED] Media related to Saluzzo at Wikimedia Commons Silvio Pellico Silvio Pellico ( Italian: [ˈsilvjo ˈpɛlliko] ; 24 June 1789 – 31 January 1854) was an Italian writer, poet, dramatist and patriot active in the Italian unification . Silvio Pellico was born in Saluzzo , Piedmont . He spent

84-537: A treatise on good government, and other works on military affairs. He was a patron of clerics and authors. In 1490 Ludovico regained power, but after his death, his sons struggled longly for the rule and impoverished the state. After long struggles for independence, the marquisate was occupied (1548) by the French, as a fief of the Crown of France – with the name of Saluces – and remained part of that kingdom until it

105-455: A tutor, first to the unfortunate son of Count Briche , and then to the two sons of Count Porro Lambertenghi  [ it ] . He threw himself heartily into an attempt to weaken the hold of the Austrian despotism by indirect educational means. The Conciliatore , a review, appeared in 1818. Of the powerful literary executives that gathered about Counts Porro and Confalonieri, Pellico

126-711: A vassal of France, wrote the romance Le chevalier errant ('the knight-errant'). Ludovico I (1416–75) started the Golden Age of the city and imposed himself as a mediator between the neighbouring powers. Ludovico II constructed a tunnel , no longer in use, through the Monviso , a remarkable work for the time. With the help of the French he resisted a vigorous siege by the Duke of Savoy in 1486, but in 1487 yielded and retired to France where he wrote L'art de la chevalerie sous Vegèce ("The art of chivalry under Vegetius", 1488),

147-677: The Salluvii . This district was brought under Roman control by the Consul Marcus Fulvius c.  125 BC . In the Carolingian age it became the residence of a count ; later, having passed to the Marquesses of Susa , Manfred I , son of Marquess Bonifacio del Vasto, on the division of that principality became Marquess of Saluzzo; this family held the marquisate of Saluzzo from 1142 to 1548. The marquisate embraced

168-468: The Assumption, stands out for its Late-Gothic forms; built outside the walls just beyond Porta Santa Maria between 1491 and 1501, it was a bishop's seat starting from 1511. The façade is in exposed brick, adorned by three portals surmounted by terracotta gables that house statues of the apostles (central portal), while above the side there are the patron San Chiaffredo and San Costanzo. The interior has

189-532: The Collegio degli Orfani Militari, now the Scuola Militare Teulié . His tragedy Francesca da Rimini , on the life and death of the noblewoman , was brought out with success by Carlotta Marchionni at Milan in 1818. Its publication was followed by that of the tragedy Euphemio da Messina , but the representation of the latter was forbidden. Pellico had in the meantime continued his work as

210-690: The Elder and Giuseppe Plura the Younger were both sculptors and both active in the United Kingdom. Works by him are to be found in Turin (the crucifixion in the Chiesa di San Francesco d'Assisi , The Archangel Gabriel and The Annunciation in the Chiesa della Misericordia ), Druento ( The Virgin and Child in the parish church of Santa Maria della Stella ), Alpignano (wooden crucifixion in

231-574: The beginning of 2019 the neighbouring commune of Castellar , thus enforcing the results of a referendum held in the summer of 2018. The municipality of Saluces occupies a vast area of 7,659 ha (18,930 acres) in the Po Valley , about 35 km (22 mi) east of Mount Viso . The Cathedral of Saluzzo  [ it ] , also known as the Cathedral, dedicated to the Virgin Mary of

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252-504: The earlier portion of his life at Pinerolo and Turin , under the tuition of a priest named Manavella. At the age of ten, he composed a tragedy inspired by a translation of the Ossianic poems . On the marriage of his twin sister Rosina with a maternal cousin at Lyon , he went to reside in that city, devoting himself for four years to the study of French literature. He returned in 1810 to Milan , where he became professor of French in

273-665: The friendship of the Marchesa Juliette Colbert de Barolo , the reformer of the Turin prisons, and in 1834 he accepted from her a yearly pension of 1200 francs. His tragedy Tommaso Moro had been published in 1833, his most important subsequent publication being the Opere inedite in 1837. On the decease of his parents in 1838, he was received into the Casa Barolo , where he remained until his death, assisting

294-630: The marchesa in her charities, and writing chiefly upon religious themes. Of these works, the best known is the Dei doveri degli uomini , a series of trite maxims which do honour to his piety rather than to his critical judgment. A fragmentary biography of the marchesa by Pellico was published in Italian and English after her death. He died in 1854 at Turin. He was buried in the Camposanto, Turin. The late 19th-century English novelist George Gissing read

315-622: The preservation of which he was compelled to rely on his memory. After his release in 1830, he commenced the publication of his prison compositions, of which the Ester was played at Turin in 1831, but immediately suppressed. In 1832, his Gismonda da Mendrisio , Erodiade and the Leoniero , appeared under the title of Tre nuove tragedie , and in the same year the work which gave him his European fame, Le mie prigioni  [ it ] , an account of his sufferings in prison. The last gained him

336-762: The territory lying between the Alps, the Po and the Stura, and was extended on several occasions. In the Middle Ages it had a chequered existence, often being in conflict with powerful neighbours, chiefly the Counts (later Dukes) of Savoy. After Manfred II 's death, his widow had to accept a series of tributes, which were to be later the base of the House of Savoy 's claims over the increasingly feebler marquises' territories. Thomas III ,

357-533: The tragedies Ester d'Engaddi and Iginici d'Asti . The sentence of death pronounced on him in February 1822 was finally commuted to fifteen years of jail in harsh condition, and in the following April he was placed in the Spielberg , at Brünn (today's Brno), where he was transferred via Udine and Ljubljana . His chief work during this part of his imprisonment was the tragedy Leoniero da Dertona , for

378-707: The work, in Italian, whilst staying in Naples in November 1888. My prisons contributed to the Italian unification against Austrian occupation. This work was translated into virtually every European language during Pellico's lifetime. Carlo Giuseppe Plura Carlo Giuseppe Plura (3 January 1663 - 14 April 1737) was a Swiss-Italian stucco artist and sculptor. He was born in Lugano and died in Borgo San Dalmazzo . Like him, his son Giuseppe Antonio Plura

399-565: Was ceded to Savoy in 1601. In 1588 Charles Emmanuel I of Savoy took possession of the city. Thenceforward Saluzzo shared the destinies of Piedmont, with which it formed "one of the keys of the house" of Italy. The Marquisate of Saluzzo is the setting of Boccaccio's tale of Griselda , the final story in the Decameron , as well as Chaucer's Clerk's Tale in The Canterbury Tales . The municipality of Saluzzo absorbed at

420-641: Was the able secretary on whom most of the responsibility for the review, the organ of the association, fell. However, the paper, under the censorship of the Austrian officials, ran for a year only, and the society itself was broken up by the government. In October 1820, Pellico was arrested on the charge of carbonarism and conveyed to the Santa Margherita prison . After his removal to the Piombi at Venice in February 1821, he composed several Cantiche and

441-420: Was the seat of a Piedmontese principality whose history is closely linked to that of its powerful neighbor, the House of Savoy , until its definitive incorporation obtained in 1601 by Duke Charles Emmanuel . The French name of Saluces was given to the city during the period of French domination. There are many traces of this francization still today as on the pediment of the casa cavassa today transformed into

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