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Giuseppe Sorge

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Giuseppe Sorge (1857–1937) was an Italian historian, prefect and director of the public security. He was born in Sutera, Sicily. He came from a rich and distinguished family of Mussomeli. Son of Carmelo Sorce (1820–1896), administrator of the goods of Lanza Branciforte of Trabia, and of Maria Crocifissa Nola. In 1884 he married Maria Carolina Crima (1862–1917), nephew of Paolo Paternostro, Red Cross nurse who died during the First World War to fatal disease he contracted in the hospital in Brescia where he lavished. He graduated in law at the College of San Rocco, Palermo. Admitted in service on May 12, 1880, in 1887 he was appointed Regio delegato straordinario of Bronte, during the epidemic of cholera. In 1892 appointed as regio delegato of Acireale and shortly after, he was appointed as sub-prefect of Termini Imerese (1893–94) and in that period, he was involved in the bloody repression of the Fasci Siciliani. He was later appointed Prefect of Girgenti (October 1, 1904 – April 15, 1907) and subsequently in Lecce (April 5, 1907 – October 1, 1909) where he founded a consortium for health supervision security in the province of Terra d'Otranto. In 1909 he was appointed Prefect of Brescia (October 1, 1909 – January 1, 1912) and Naples (January 1, 1912 – May 16, 1914) where he was appointed Prefect of first class (May 22, 1931). Relocated to Brescia (October 1, 1915 – September 1, 1917). Later assigned to Venice (September 1, 1917 – November 1, 1917) where it was placed at the disposal of the Ministry of Interior who appointed him Director General of Public Security (September 29, 1917 – March 10, 1919) under the Ministry Orlando. He ceased office on February 25, 1919. He died in Palermo on February 13, 1937. He was buried in the cemetery of St. Ursula Palermo, next to his wife Maria Carolina Crima. He was promoted to Grand Officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy. it "Mussomeli dall'origine all'abolizione della feudalità, 1910–1916" (Catania, Niccolò Giannotta Editore, 1916, reprinted by Edizioni Ristampe Siciliane, Palermo 1982.
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