page_title: Lugano
section_title: Lugano during the Renaissance and Enlightenment
hierarchical_section_title: Lugano / History / Lugano during the Renaissance and Enlightenment
caption_attribution_description: Camera location45°&#160;59′&#160;51.79″&#160;N, 8°&#160;56′&#160;45.24″&#160;EView this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap - Google Maps - Google Earth English: Lugano, Tessin, Switzerland - Santa Maria di Loreto church - Side view Italiano: Lugano, Ticino, Svizzera - La chiesa di Santa Maria di Loreto - Vista laterale
context_page_description: Lugano is a town and a municipality in southern Switzerland in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino bordering Italy.
  The between 2004 and 2013 territorially vastly expanded municipality has a population of 63,185, and an urban agglomeration of over 150,000. The ninth largest Swiss town, it is the largest in Ticino and largest with an Italian speaking majority outside of Italy. The town lies on Lake Lugano, surrounded by the mountains of the Lugano Prealps.
  The eastern part of the municipality shares a border with Italy.
context_section_description: Between 1433 and 1438 the Duke of Milan, Aloisio Sanseverino sat as a feudal lord over Lugano. He compensated the Rusca family with the ownership of Locarno. Under the reign of his heirs in the following decades rebellions and riots broke out, which lasted until the French invasion of 1499.
  It was the object of continuous disputes between the Dukes of Como and Milan until it became a Swiss dominion in 1513. Swiss control lasted until 1798 when Napoleon conquered the Old Swiss Confederation and created the Helvetic Republic.
  In 1746, the Agnelli brothers opened the first printing press and bookshop in Lugano. They began publishing the newspaper Nuove di diverse corti e paesi in 1748 and changed its name to Gazzetta di Lugano in 1797. The newspaper was widely read in north and central Italy. It supported the cause of the later Jansenists against the Jesuits and therefore was banned in 1768 in the territory of the Papal States. It was open to the themes of enlightened reform and the American Revolutionary War. It was the first newspaper in the Italian language to publish an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence of 1776. After the death of Abbot Gian Battista Agnelli in 1788, who had been the editor for more than 40 years, Abbot Giuseppe Lodovico Maria Vanelli took over the paper. Under Abbot Vanelli, it supported the revolutionary ideas from France, which drew protests from the Austrian government in Lombardy. The publication of the magazine ceased abruptly after edition number 17 of 29 April 1799, following the anti-French riots in Lugano during which the Agnelli printing house was sacked and Abbot Vanelli was shot.
  Under the Helvetic Republic, Lugano became the capital of the Canton of Lugano.
caption: Church of Santa Maria di Loreto
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