biography
pronunciation:
[aw(r)seenee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1819–58)
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| biography:
| Revolutionary, born in Meldola, NEC Italy. He was early initiated into secret societies, and in 1844 was sentenced at Rome to the galleys, amnestied, and again imprisoned for political plots. In 1853 he was shipped by the Sardinian government to England, where he joined the Young Italy movement and formed close relations with Mazzini. In 1857 he made an unsuccessful attempt in Paris to assassinate Napoleon III by throwing a bomb under his carriage; the action killed 10 others and injured over 100. He was arrested and executed. |
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