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unusual facts about Canton Ticino



Ferdinando Fontana

Inno del Canton Ticino (Anthem of Canton Ticino) as well as songs and romanzas set to music by various composers, including Nicolò Massa and Francesco Paolo Tosti.

Simone Peterzano

His last works, characterized by a cold monumental style, include a fresco with Stories of St. Anthony of Padua for the church of Sant'Angelo, a canvas with Madonna with Child and Saints for the parish church of Bioggio (Canton Ticino) and an altarpiece with St. Ambrose between Sts. Gervasius and Protasius in the Duomo of Milan (1592, now in the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana).

Spiritual defence

A special form of spiritual defence was illustrated by the so-called 'Elvetismo' (cp. Helvetism) movement in Canton Ticino which opposed Italian Irredentism.


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Andrea-Salvatore Aglio

Notes about his life are provided by the Historical Dictionary of illustrious men of the Canton Ticino, published in 1807 by Gian Alfonso Oldelli, from Meride (who personally knew the artist).

Bartholomew Ruspini

The son of Andreas Ruspini of Grumello, a minor member of a patrician family originated from Croglio, in the ancient Italian region of Como, now in the Canton Ticino (Switzerland), the chevalier Bartholomew Ruspini was born about 1728, in Zogno, near Bergamo, a place about 40 miles north-east of Milan.

HC Ambrì-Piotta

Ambrì and Piotta are two very small villages in the municipality of Quinto, located in the northern part of the valley Leventina canton Ticino, with a combined population of 500 people.