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See also:POERIO, ALESSANDRO (1802-1848) , See also:Italian poet and patriot, was descended from an old Calabrian See also:family, his See also:father, See also:Baron Giuseppe Poerio, being a distinguished lawyer of See also:Naples. In 1815 he and his See also:brother Carlo accompanied their father, who had been identified with See also:Murat's cause, into See also:- EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)
exile, and settled at See also:Florence. In 1818 they were allowed to return to Naples, and on the See also:proclamation of the constitution in 182o the Poerios were among the stoutest defenders of the newly-won freedom. Allessandro fought as a volunteer, under See also:General Guglielmo See also:Pepe, against the Austrians in 1821, but when the latter reoccupied Naples and the 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 abolished the constitution, the family was again exiled and settled at Gratz. Alessandro devoted himself to study in various See also:German See also:universities, and at See also:Weimar he became the friend of See also:Goethe. In 1835 the Poerios returned to Naples, and Alessandro, while practising See also:law with his father, published a number of lyrics. In 1848 he accompanied Pepe as a volunteer to fight the Austrians in See also:northern See also:Italy, and on the recall of the Neapolitan contingent Alessandro followed Pepe to See also:Venice and displayed See also:great bravery during the See also:siege. He was severely wounded in the fighting See also:round Mestre, and died on the 3rd of See also:November 1848. His See also:poetry " reveals the See also:idealism of a See also:tender and delicate mind which was diligent in storing up sensations and images that for others would have been at most the transient impressions of a moment." But he could also See also:sound the clarion See also:note of patriotism, as in his stirring poem Il Risorgimento.
His brother Carlo (1803-1867), after returning to Naples, practised as an See also:advocate, and from 1837 to 1848 was frequently arrested and imprisoned; but when King See also:Ferdinand, moved by the demonstration of the 27th of See also:January of the latter See also:year, promulgated a constitution, he was made See also:minister of See also:education. Discovering, however, that the. king was acting in See also:bad faith, he resigned See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office in See also:April and returned to Naples to take his seat in See also:parliament, where he led the constitutional opposition. The See also:Austrian victory of See also:Novara (See also:March 1849) set the king See also:free to dissolve parliament and trample on the constitution, and on the 19th of See also:July 1849 Poerio was arrested, tried, and condemned to
nineteen years in irons. Chained in pairs, he and other See also:political prisoners were confined in one small See also:room in the bagno of Nisida, near the See also:lazaretto. The eloquent exposure (1851) of the horrors of the Neapolitan dungeons by See also:Gladstone, who emphasized especially the See also:case of Poerio, awakened the universal indignation of See also:Europe, but he aid not obtain his See also:liberty till 1858. He and other exiles were than placed on See also:board a See also:ship See also:bound for the See also:United States, but the son of See also:Settembrini, another of the exiles, who was on board in disguise, compelled the See also:- CREW (sometimes explained as a sea term of Scandinavian origin, cf. O. Icel. kris, a swarm or crowd, but now regarded as a shortened form of accrue, accrewe, used in the 16th century in the sense of a reinforcement, O. Fr. acreue, from accrofire, to grow,
- CREW, NATHANIEL CREW, 3RD BARON (1633–1721)
crew to See also:land them at See also:Cork, whence Poerio made his way to See also:London. In the following year he returned to Italy, and in i86o he was elected See also:deputy to the parliament of See also:Turin, of which he was chosen See also:vice-See also:president in 1861. He died at Florence on the 28th of April 1867.
See Baldachini, Della Vita e de' tempi di Carlo Poerio (1867); W. E. Gladstone, Two Letters to the See also:Earl of See also:Aberdeen (1851); Carlo Poerio and the Neapolitan See also:Police (London, 1858) ; Vannucci, I See also:Martini della liberta italiana, vol. iii. (See also:Milan, i88o); Imbriani, Alessandro Poerio a Venezia (Naples, 1884) ; Del Giudice, I Fratelli Poerio (Turin, 1899) ; Countess Martinengo Cesaresco, Italian Characters (London, 1901).
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