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Pietro Spurgazzi
engineer was born on 26th May 1815 and died on 25th March 1889 in Turin.
In 1835 Spurgazzi graduated in Hydraulic Engineering and Civil Architecture. Admitted to the Body of Civil Engineers, later Spurgazzi was nominated as engineer head of the same Body for the Province of Moutiers in Savoy.
After moving to Pallanza, Spurgazzi processed the project for the Jail. In 1845 the Government nominated him as a temporary commissioner with full powers for healthing, reconstitution and hygiene works in the prisons of Sardinian States. In those years Spurgazzi became a honorary member of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Turin.
After deciding the creation of the railway line Turin-Genoa, in 1847 he was committed with the management of works for the first segment including Turin and Villafranca d'Asti. In the same year he designed and managed the works for the palace of Justice in ChambČry and the railways from Turin to Savigliano-Cuneo. His political activity engaged him as a member of the Parliament, in VI and IX legislatures, inspector of Civil Engineers in Covernment Councils, member of the Superior Coucil of Public Works and from 1864 to 1866, general Secretary of the Ministry of Public Works.
In 1866 Spurgazzi retired from his government offices. Mainly he cared for resolving some controversies between the Government and Ligurian railways. He took the office of member in the Arbitration Board for Railways of the Kingdom, between the Government and releasing institutes after the release of the law abolishing the compelled procedure, between the Government and Calabrian-Sicilian railways as a technical expert.
These experiences helped Spurgazzi for writing his memories and other works. He was a member in several technical commissions, among which the one which reported on stability conditions of the Antonellian Mole. Since the 80s he was appointed as a member of the Provincial Board, the Administration Council of the Farming Station, of the Superior Council of Valentino School and the Board of Directors in the Royal Industrial Museum. In this period he was nominated as a president of the technical Cadastral Board for the equal distribution of lands.
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