Luigi Bechi was an Italian painter🎨, born in Florence. As a young Italian patriot, he joined in the war for independence.
In the campaign of 1859 against Austria, he joined as a simple soldier in the artillery in the fifth army corps and in 1866, he fought with Garibaldi in the Trentino, and was wounded and made prisoner in the Battle of Bezzecca.
He trained under Giuseppe Bezzuoli and Enrico Pollastrini in Florence.