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PIETRO COLLETTA (1775-1831)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 687 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COLLETTA (1775-1831)  , Neapolitan See also:general and historian, entered the Neapolitan See also:artillery in 1796 and took See also:part in the See also:campaign against the See also:French in 1798 . On the entry of the French into See also:Naples and the See also:establishment of the Parthenopean See also:republic (1799) he adhered to the new See also:government, and when the See also:Bourbon See also:king See also:Ferdinand IV . (q.v.) reconquered the See also:city See also:Colletta was thrown into See also:prison and only escaped the See also:death See also:penalty by means of judiciously administered bribes . Turned out of the See also:army he became a See also:civil engineer, but when the Bourbons were expelled a second See also:time in 1806 and See also:Joseph See also:Bonaparte seized the See also:throne of Naples, he was reinstated in his See also:rank and served in the expedition against the brigands and rebels of See also:Calabria . In 1812 he was promoted general, and made director of roads and See also:bridges . He served under See also:Joachim See also:Murat and fought the Austrians on the Panaro in 1815 . On the restoration of Ferdinand Colletta was permitted to retain his rank in the army, and given command of the See also:Salerno See also:division . At the out-break of the revolution of 1820 the king called him to his See also:councils, and when the constitution had been granted Colletta was sent to put down the separatist rising in See also:Sicily, which he did with See also:great severity . He fought in the constitutionalist army against the Austrians at See also:Rieti (7th of See also:March 1821), and on the re-establishment of See also:autocracy he was arrested and imprisoned for three months by See also:order of the See also:prince of See also:Canosa, the See also:chief of See also:police, his particular enemy . He would have been executed had not the Austrians intervened in his favour, and he was exiled instead to Brinn in See also:Moravia; in 1823 he was permitted to See also:settle in See also:Florence, where he spent the See also:rest of his days engaged on his See also:Scoria del reame di Napoli . He died in 1831 . His See also:history (1st ed., Capolago, 1834), which deals with the reigns of See also:Charles III. and Ferdinand IV .

(1734-1825), is still the See also:

standard See also:work for that See also:period; but its value is somewhat diminished by the author's bitterness against his opponents and the fact that he does not give See also:chapter and See also:verse for his statements, many of which are based on his recollection of documents seen, but not available at the time of See also:writing . Still, having been an actor in many of the events recorded, he is on the whole accurate and trustworthy . See Gino See also:Capponi's memoir of him published in the Storia del reame di Napoli (2nd ed., Florence, 1848) . (L .

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