Giovanni Antonio Galignani

Giovanni Antonio Galignani (1757–1821) was an Italian newspaper publisher born at Brescia.

[1] After his death in 1821, his two sons, John Anthony (1796–1873) and William (1798–1882) continued publishing the paper.

Under their management it enjoyed a high reputation for its global coverage and emphasis on progressive news.

[1] Galignani's Messenger is referred to in Turgenev's novel Fathers and Sons, as well as in author William Makepeace Thackeray‘s victorian novel Vanity Fair, where the paper appears as "the exile's best friend".

There are also references to 'Galignani's' in Trollope's Last Chronicle Of Barset, and Stevenson’s and Osbourne’s The Wrong Box.