Efisio Tola, (1803 – 12 June 1833) was an Italian patriot. Born in

Sassari Sassari (, ; sdc, Sàssari ; sc, Tàtari, ) is an Italian city and the second-largest of Sardinia in terms of population with 127,525 inhabitants, and a Functional Urban Area of about 260,000 inhabitants. One of the oldest cities on the island, ...

, Sardinia to a noble family, he was the brother of the politician and magistrate

Pasquale Tola Pasquale Tola (30 November 1800 in Sassari – 25 August 1874 in Genoa) was an Italian judge, politician and historian. Issue of an ancient and noble Sardinian family, he studied in Sassari, where he obtained a degree in theology and law and also ...

. Efisio Tola was lieutenant of the Pinerolo Brigade, and a member of the

Giovine Italia Young Italy ( it, La Giovine Italia) was an Italian political movement founded in 1831 by Giuseppe Mazzini. After a few months of leaving Italy, in June 1831, Mazzini wrote a letter to King Charles Albert of Sardinia, in which he asked him to un ...

. Due to his membership he was arrested.Piero Calamandrei, Il Ponte, 1945, p. 1050 Tola refused to reveal the names of his companions, and was sentenced to death in Chambéry (then part of the Kingdom of Sardinia) in 1833. In Sassari the Piazza Tola (Piazza Efisio e Pasquale Tola) in the historical centre is named after the brothers.

Bibliography

*Sebastiano Deledda, Una biografia inedita di Efisio Tola. Sassari, Stamperia della Libreria italiana e straniera, 1931.

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People from Sassari 1803 births 1833 deaths Italian military personnel People from the Kingdom of Sardinia Italian republicans Italian people of the Italian unification People executed by Italy by firing squad Executed Italian people {{Italy-bio-stub