ANTONIO CARLO NAPOLEONE

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• ANTONIO CARLO NAPOLEONE GALLENGA (1810-1895)

GALLENGA (1810-1895)  , Italian author and patriot, born at Parma on the 4th of November 181o, was the eldest son of a Piedmontese of good family, who served for ten years in the French army under Massena and Napoleon . He had finished his education at the university of Parma, when the French Revolution of 183o caused a ferment in Italy . He sympathized with the movement, and within a few months was successively a conspirator, a state prisoner, a combatant and a fugitive . For the next five years he lived a wandering life in France, Spain and Africa . In August 1836 he embarked for New York, and three years later he proceeded to England, where he supported himself as a translator and teacher of languages . His first book, Italy; General Views of its History and Literature, which appeared in 1841, was well received, but was not successful financially . On the outbreak of the Italian revolution in 1848 he at once put himself in communication with the insurgents . He filled the post of Charge d'Affaires for Piedmont at Frankfort in 1848-1849, and for the next few years he travelled incessantly between Italy and England, working for the liberation of his country . In 1854, through Cavour's influence, he was elected a deputy to the Italian parliament . He retained his seat until 1864, passing the summer in England and fulfilling his parliamentary duties at Turin in the winter . On the outbreak of the Austro-French War of 1859 he proceeded to Lombardy as war correspondent of The Times . Tht campaign was so brief that the fighting was over before he arrived, but his connexion with The Times endured for twenty years .

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English remarkable for an Italian . He materially helped to establish that friendly feeling towards Italy which became traditional in England . In 1859 Gallenga purchased the Falls, at Llandogo on the Wye, as a residence, and thither he retired in 1885 . He died at this house on the 17th of December 1895 . He was twice married . Among his chief works are an Historical Memoir of FM Dolcino and his Times (1853); a History of Piedpaont (3 vols., 1855; Italian translation, 1856); Country Life in Piedmont (1858) ; The Invasion of Denmark (2 vols., 1864); The Pearl of the Antilles [travels in Cuba] (1873); Italy Revisited XI . 14(2 vols., 1875); Two Years of the Eastern Question (2 vols., 1877); The Pope [Pius IX.] and the King [Victor Emmanuel] (2 vols., 1879); South America (188o) ; A Summer Tour in Russia (1882); Iberian Reminiscences (2 vols., 1883); Episodes of my Second Life (1884); Italy, Present and Future (2 vols., 1887) . Gallenga's earlier publications appeared under the pseudonym of Luigi Mariotti .