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Carlo Poerio

Italian revolutionary
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Born:
Oct. 13, 1803, Naples
Died:
April 28, 1867, Florence (aged 63)
Notable Family Members:
brother Alessandro Poerio

Carlo Poerio (born Oct. 13, 1803, Naples—died April 28, 1867, Florence) was an Italian revolutionary, distinguished for his services to liberalism during the Risorgimento. The son of the Neapolitan lawyer and liberal Baron Giuseppe Poerio and the brother of the poet and soldier Alessandro Poerio, Carlo shared in the exiles of his family from Naples by the Bourbons; and, when he returned to Naples in 1833, he was an object of constant suspicion, though he was careful to play no part in politics. He was arrested in 1837, 1844, and 1847. In the Revolution of 1848 he helped to formulate ...(100 of 246 words)

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