biography
pronunciation:
[pisakahnay]
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| lived:
| (1818–57)
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| biography:
| Italian patriot and writer, born in Naples, Campania, SW Italy. A former officer in the Bourbon army, he was a volunteer in the 1st Italian Independence War (1848) and took part in the Roman Republic's defence. Considering the failure of the 1848 revolution, he advocated a more democratic and libertarian approach to the social question, which would increase popular participation in revolutionary risings. His name has become synonymous with the Sapri expedition in 1857 when, with others, he took control of the mail ship Cagliari, freed 300 political prisoners from Ponza, and landed at Sapri. But the local population did not rise up as hoped and, instead, spurred by the clergy and reactionaries, attacked and slaughtered Pisacane and his men. |
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