Giovanni Maria Angioy

Giuanni (or Zuanne) Maria Angioy is a Sardinian freedom fighter of the end of the 18th century

The April 28th 1794, the Piedmontese assassination of two civils servant with Cagliari degenerates into open rebellion. They are the days acciappa (true hunting for Piedmontese still downtown). The revolt is propagated in all Sardinia. The rebels, being pressed on the poor peasants, occupy Sassari, in the north of the island, where most of the aristocracy had taken refuge.

Anti-feudal agitation extending, the Sardinian Parliament sends since Cagliari an army with at its head the lawyer Giovanni Maria Angioy. This one, sympathizer of the ideas of the French revolution, takes on its arrival the party of the people and supports the rebellion.

To the head of its army and various irregular militia, it goes against the loyal supporters who, at the same time, gather a new army with Cagliari while asking for the assistance of the viceroy. Anjoy is repudiated and, putting at back the preserving forces, continues its projection towards the capital. Surprised with reverse by a Piedmontese army (supplemented Mercenary S Swiss S and Corsica S) coldly unloaded and better equipped, it is overcome close to Oristano in 1796. Its head is consequently put at price like gangster. Its family must flee and change name. Its native village of Bono is bombarded and ransacked.

Anjoy flees on the continent and takes refuge with Paris. It is said that until its last day he will have sought to convince Napoleon to send an army in Sardinia to carry the ideals of the Revolution there. He dies in Paris, poor and abandoned in 1808. The place of its burial is unknown.

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