Marquis Ferdinando Bartolommei (1821 - 15 June 1869) was an Italian revolutionist and statesman who played an important part in the political events of Tuscany from 1848 to 1860.
[1] After the return of Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany in 1849 under Austrian protection, Bartolommei was present at a requiem service in the church of Santa Croce for those who fell in the late campaign against Austria; on that occasion disorders occurred and he was relegated to his country estate in consequence (1851).
[1] Finding that the nobility still hesitated at the idea of uncompromising hostility to the house of Lorraine, he allied himself more firmly with the popular party, and found an able lieutenant in the baker Giuseppe Dolfi (1818–1869), an honest and whole-hearted enthusiast who had great influence with the common people.
In the summer elections were held, and on the meeting of parliament Bartolommei's unitarian views prevailed, the assembly voting the resolution that the house of Lorraine had forfeited its rights and that Tuscany must be united to Italy under King Victor Emmanuel.
[1] The best biography of Bartolommei is contained in Il Rivolgimento toscano e l'azione popolare, by his daughter Matilde Gioli (Florence, 1905), but the author attributes perhaps ap undue preponderance to her father in the Tuscan revolution, and is not quite fair towards Bettino Ricasoli and other leaders of the aristocratic party.