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See also:DIAVOLO, FRA (1771-1806) , the popular name given to a famous See also:Italian brigand associated with the See also:political revolutions of See also:southern See also:Italy at the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of the See also:French invasion. His real name was Michele Pezza, and he was See also:born of See also:low parentage at See also:Itri; he had committed many murders and robberies in the Terra di Lavoro, but by See also:good See also:luck combined with audacity he always escaped See also:capture, whence his name of Fra Diavolo, popular superstition having invested him with the characters of a See also:- MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
- MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
- MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
- MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)
monk and a demon, and it seems that at one time he actually was a monk. When the See also:kingdom of See also:Naples was overrun by the French and the Parthenopaean See also:Republic established (1799), See also:Cardinal See also:Ruffo, acting on behalf of the See also:Bourbon See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king See also:Ferdinand IV., who had fled to See also:Sicily, undertook the reconquest of the See also:country, and for this purpose he raised bands of peasants, See also:gaol-birds, brigands, &c., under the name of Sanfedisti or bande della See also:Santa Fede (" bands of the See also:Holy Faith "). Fra Diavolo was made See also:leader of one of them, and waged untiring See also:war against the French troops, cutting off isolated detachments and murdering stragglers and couriers. Owing to his unrivalled knowledge of the country, he succeeded in interrupting the enemy's communications between See also:Rome and Naples. But although, like his See also:fellow-brigands under Ruffo, he styled himself " the faithful servant and subject of His Sicilian See also:Majesty," wore a military See also:uniform and held military See also:rank, and was even created See also:duke of See also:Cassano, his atrocities were worthy of a bandit See also:chief. On one occasion he threw some of his prisoners,men, See also:women and See also:children, over a precipice, and on another he had a party of seventy shot. His excesses while at Albano were such that the Neapolitan See also:general Naselli had him arrested and imprisoned in the See also:castle of St Angelo, but he was liberated soon of ter. When See also:Joseph See also:Bonaparte was made king of Naples, extra-See also:ordinary tribunals were established to suppress See also:brigandage, and a See also:price was put on Fra Diavolo's See also:head. After spreading terror through See also:Calabria, he crossed over to Sicily, where he concerted further attacks on the French. He returned to the mainland at the head of 200 convicts, and committed further excesses in the Terra di Lavoro; but the French troops were everywhere on the alert to capture him and he had to take See also:refuge in the See also:woods of Lenola. For two months he evaded his pursuers, but at length, hungry and See also:ill, he went in disguise to the See also:village of Baronissi, where he was recognized and arrested, tried by an extraordinary tribunal, condemned to See also:death and shot. In his last moments he cursed both the Bourbons and See also:Admiral See also:Sir See also:Sidney See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith for having induced him to engage in this reckless See also:adventure (1806). Although his See also:cruelty was abominable, he was not altogether without generosity, and by his courage and audacity he acquired a certain romantic popularity. His name has gained a See also:world-wide celebrity as the See also:title of a famous See also:opera by See also:Auber.
The best known See also:account of Fra Diavolo is in Pietro See also:Colletta's Storia del reame di Napoli (2nd ed., See also:Florence, 1848) ; B. Amante's Fra Diavolo c it suo tempo (Florence, 1904) is an attempted rehabilitation; but A. Luzio, whose account in Proili e bozzetti storici (See also:Milan, 1906) gives the latest See also:information on the subject, has demolished Amante's arguments. (U. V.
End of Article: DIAVOLO, FRA (1771-1806)
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