Giuseppe Compagnoni

The parents lived in Casa Cavadini, on the street De 'Brozzi (San Vitale) not far from the Sanctuary of the Madonna del Mulino.

[2] Giuseppe was sent to study as a child, distinguishing himself in philosophy and theology and graduating cum laude in 1778 at the college of Dominicans in the territory.

In 1782, one of his poems, La Fiera di Sinigaglia o sia saggio sul commercio, signed with the pseudonym Ligofilo (a term he himself coined on the Greek assonance, "lover of reading") was reviewed by the Bologna magazine "Memorie Enciclopediche",[5] a bibliographic information journal created the previous year.

Compagnoni came into contact with the director, the lawyer Giovanni Ristori, and in a short time he started an external collaboration with the newspaper.

Ristori appreciated the encyclopedic culture of the Lughese; just as he immediately liked Compagnoni's reviews, written with an ironic and sharp style at the same time.

Here he met the patriots Giovanni Battista De Rolandis and Luigi Zamboni who then organized a revolt starring the Italian tricolor cockade.

...[9]The congress's decision to adopt a green, white and red tricolor flag was then also greeted by a jubilant atmosphere, so much was the enthusiasm of the delegates, and by bursts of applause.

[10] For the first time, the city of ducal states for centuries enemies, they identify themselves as one people and a common identity symbol: the tricolor flag.

Following the merger between the Cispadana and the Cisalpina into a single entity, Compagnoni moved to Milan, where he held various institutional offices – first deputy and then member of the Cassation – until the Austrians returned in 1799.

Within the first year of life Compagnoni sold the head to Count Luigi Bossi and entered service as an official of the Cisalpine administration.

Sheltered in Paris due to the Austro-Russian invasion led by General Suvorov (1799), he returned to the Lombard capital immediately after the French victory at Battle of Marengo (1800).

He became a career official in the Cisalpine, then became the Italian Republic and later the Kingdom of Italy, he held – among others – the position of secretary of the Council of State.