I foglianti in Piemonte nel triennio giacobino

This essay aims to contribute to the history of the Piedmontese Foglianti monks during the difficult three-year Jacobin period and the 15 years of Napoleonic rule that followed. Analysis of the names on lists of Piedmontese revolutionaries compared with the list of Jacobin priests arrested in 1799 and interned in the fortress of Verrua Savoia, show that 16 were Foglianti. All adhered–in different ways–to the ideals of the French Revolution and were associated with all of the principal monasteries of the Congregation: the Consolata in Turin, Novalesa, Abbadia Alpina, Testona, Vicoforte and Asti. In particular, active involvement in the revolutionary municipality of Moncalieri by a well-defined group of five Foglianti monks from the monastery of Santa Maria of Testona has been reconstructed.