biography
| name: |
Montanelli, Giuseppe
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pronunciation:
[montanaylee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1813–62)
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| biography:
| Italian politician and intellectual, born in Fucecchio, Tuscany, W Italy. He contributed to Vieusseux's review Antologia, and was wounded in the 1st Italian Independence War , where he fought as a volunteer. With Guerrazzi and Mazzoni, he was one of the three members of the temporary Tuscan government (1849) established after the grand-duke escaped. After Leopoldo II's restoration, he was sentenced to life imprisonment in his absence and went to France. He returned in 1859 and became a Tuscan deputy and favoured an Italian federation, rather than joining Piedmont. He became a deputy of the new Italian parliament in 1862. |
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