Pietro Grisetti (Salò, 1779 – 1847)
Son of a textile trader and manufacturer, he enlisted in the Brescian Legion as a volunteer cannoneer on 1 August 1797, was promoted to corporal in September, to sergeant in October, then to lieutenant 2nd class on 6 December. On 30 September 1801 he became lieutenant 1st class, then was employed at the War Ministry from July 1802 to March 1803. On 17 July he was promoted to captain 2nd class, on 17 November 1804 to captain 1st class, then on 18 July 1806 battalion chief. Being a Republican, he disapproved of the transformation into a Kingdom, but continued to serve. He took part in the campaigns from 1797 to 1800 in Italy, from 1806 to 1809 in Dalmatia and Istria, where he was subdirector and was taken prisoner. In 1811 he was at Venice, in 1813 at Pavia as interim director, in 1814 subdirector at Ancona, where he was taken prisoner after the capitulation of the fortress. He chose to serve Murat, in whose army he was received as a colonel. He served as a preceptor to Murat’s sons, then retired in May 1815 to private life. He published a book: Grisetti, Pietro and Giuseppe Rosaroll Scorza. 1803. La scienza della scherma. Milano: Stamperia del Giornale italico (Cf. MSA, WO 112, http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/pietro-grisetti_(Dizionario-Biografico)/).