Luigi Pianciani (10 August 1810 – 17 October 1890) was an Italian politician and Freemason. He was born in and was twice mayor of Rome. He died in Spoleto.
Biography Count Luigi Pianciani was born in Rome in 1810 into a patrician family of Spoleto origin with ties to the Roman Curia. As a young man, he rebelled against the conservative traditions of his family home and soon became a sympathizer of Mazzini’s Giovine Italia. He was the eldest son of Count Vincenzo Pianciani (1789–1856) and Amalia Ruspoli (1790–1868), daughter of Prince Ruspoli family of Cerveteri. He had seven siblings: Laura (1812), Carlo (1815), Leopoldo (1817), Camillo (1819), who died in August 1829, Francesco (1821), Alessandro (1824), and Adolfo (1826). He married Rose Teresa Ducohorne, a woman of humble origins whom he met in Paris. He lived with her until her death (1871); they had no children. In his second marriage, he married Letizia Castellazzi, and they adopted a girl, Ines Pianciani.
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