biography
pronunciation:
[payleekoh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1789–1854)
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| biography:
| Patriot and writer, born in Saluzzo, Piedmont, N Italy. A member of the Carboneria secret society, he was involved in the anti-Austrian review Il Conciliatore. In 1820 he was arrested and given the death penalty, which was then commuted to 20 years in the notorious Spilberk jail. Pardoned in 1830, his memoirs Le mie prigioni (1832) became a great success and one of the Risorgimento classics. Among other works are the tragedies Francesca da Rimini (1815) and Corradino (1834), and the poems Poesie inedite (1837). |
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