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Antonio Vismara
1839–1903
Best known as a Milanese bookseller, bibliophile, and meticulous compiler of literary and political bibliographies, he also wrote history, legal studies, and social novels. His work moved easily between scholarship and storytelling, with a strong interest in Italy’s writers and public life.
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Storia delle cinque gloriose giornate di Milano nel 1848
by Antonio Vismara
About the author
Born in Milan in 1839 and active there until his death in 1903, Antonio Vismara is remembered as an Italian bookseller, bibliophile, writer, and bibliographer. Reference sources connect him especially with careful bibliographic work on major Italian literary and political figures.
Treccani notes that he produced numerous bibliographies devoted to writers and statesmen, including works on Alessandro Manzoni, Vittorio Emanuele II, Cesare Balbo, Giuseppe Garibaldi, and Carlo Cattaneo. A longer biographical entry also describes a wider range of interests: after legal and political studies, he devoted much of his later life to research and published across law, history, and social fiction.
Readers may also know him through historical writing such as Storia delle cinque gloriose giornate di Milano nel 1848, a book that reflects his interest in the Italian Risorgimento and in presenting the past to a broad public. No reliable portrait image was confirmed from the sources I found.