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PISACANE, CARLO

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 647 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PISACANE, CARLO , See also:duke of See also:San Giovanni (1818-1857), See also:Italian revolutionary, was See also:born at See also:Naples, and entered the Neapolitan See also:army in 1839; but having become imbued with Mazzinian ideas he emigrated in 1847, and after a See also:short stay in See also:England and See also:France served in the See also:French army in See also:Algeria. The revolution of 1848 recalled him to See also:Italy; he played a See also:part in the brief but glorious See also:history of the See also:Roman See also:Republic, and was the See also:life and soul of the See also:war See also:commission in the See also:defence of the See also:city. After its See also:capture by the French he again went into See also:exile, first to See also:London and then to See also:Genoa, maintaining himself by teaching. He regarded the See also:rule of the See also:house of See also:Savoy as no better than that of See also:Austria. When Mazzini, undeterred by the failure of the abortive See also:Milan rising on the 6th of See also:February 1853, determined to organize an expedition to provoke a rising in the Neapolitan See also:kingdom, Pisacane offered himself for the task, and sailed from Genoa with a few followers (including Giovanni See also:Nicotera) on See also:board the " Cagliari " on the 25th of See also:June 1857. They landed on the See also:island of See also:Ponza, where the See also:guards were overpowered and some hundreds of prisoners liberated, and on the 28th arrived at Sapri in See also:Calabria and attempted to reach the Cilento. But hardly any assistance from the inhabitants was forthcoming, and the invaders were quickly overpowered, Pisacane himself being killed. See P. M. Bilotti, La Spedizione di Sapri (See also:Salerno, 1907).

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