SILVIO See also:

• SILVIO PELLICO (1788-1854)

PELLICO (1788-1854)  , See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian dramatist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• SALUZZO

Saluzzo in See also:

• PIEDMONT (Ital. Piemonte; Low Lat. Pedemons and Pedemontium)

Piedmont on the 24th of See also:

• JUNE

June 1788, the earlier portion of his See also:

• LIFE

life being passed at See also:

• PINEROLO

Pinerolo and See also:

• TURIN

Turin under the tuition of a See also:

• PRIEST (Ger. Priester, Fr. pretre)

priest named Manavella . At the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of ten he composed a tragedy under the See also:

• INSPIRATION (Lat. inspirare, breathe upon or into)

inspiration of Caesarotti's See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation of the Ossianic poems . On the See also:

• MARRIAGE

marriage of his twin See also:

• SISTER

sister Rosina with a maternal See also:

• COUSIN (Fr. cousin, Ital. cugino, Late Lat. cosinus, perhaps a popular and familiar abbreviation of consobrinus, which has the same sense in classical Latin)
• COUSIN, JEAN (1500-1590)
• COUSIN, VICTOR (1792–1867)

cousin at See also:

• LYONS
• LYONS (Fr. Lyon)
• LYONS, COUNCILS OF
• LYONS, EDMUND LYONS, BARON (1790-1858)
• LYONS, RICHARD BICKERTON PEMELL LYONS, 1ST EARL (1817–1887)

Lyons he went to reside in that See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city, devoting himself during four years to the study of See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French literature . He returned in 1810 to See also:

• MILAN
• MILAN (Ital. Milano, Ger. Mailand, anc. Mediolanum, q.v.)

Milan, where he became See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of French in the Collegio degli Orfani Militari . His tragedy Francesca da See also:

• RIMINI

Rimini, was brought out with success by Carlotta Marchionni at Milan in 1818 . Its publication was followed by that of the tradegy Eufemio da See also:

• MESSINA

Messina, but the See also:

• REPRESENTATION

representation of the latter was forbidden . See also:

• PELLICO, SILVIO (1788-1854)

Pellico had in the meantime continued his See also:

• WORK

work as See also:

• TUTOR (Lat. tutor, guardian, tueri, to watch over, protect)

tutor, first to the unfortunate son of See also:

• COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

Count Briche, and then to the two sons of Count Porro Lambertenghi . He threw himself heartily into an See also:

• ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

attempt to weaken the hold of the See also:

• AUSTRIAN

Austrian despotism by indirect educational means . Of the powerful See also:

• LITERARY

literary executive which gathered about See also:

• COUNTS

Counts Porro and See also:

• CONFALONIERI, FEDERICO, COUNT (1785-1846)

Confalonieri, Pellico was the able secretary—the management of the Conciliatore, which appeared in 1818 as the See also:

• ORGAN

organ of the association, resting largely upon him . But the See also:

• PAPER
• PAPER (Fr. papier, from Lat. papyrus)

paper, under the censorship of the Austrian officials, ran for a See also:

• YEAR

year only, and the society itself was broken up by the See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government . In See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1820 Pellico was arrested on the See also:

• CHARGE
• CHARGE (through the Fr. from the Late Lat. carricare, to load in a carrus or wagon; cf. " cargo ")

charge of carbonarism and conveyed to the See also:

• SANTA

Santa Margherita See also:

• PRISON (derived through the Fr. from the Lat. prehensio, seizure)

prison . After his removal to the Piombi at See also:

• VENICE
• VENICE (continued)
• VENICE (Venezia)

Venice in See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1821, he composed several Cantiche and the tragedies Ester d'Engaddi and Iginia d'See also:

• ASTI (anc. Hasta)

Asti .

The See also:

• SENTENCE (Lat. sententia, a way of thinking, opinion, judgment; vote, sentire, to feel, think)

sentence of See also:

• DEATH

death pronounced on him in February 1822 was finally commuted to fifteen years carcere duro, and in the following See also:

• APRIL

April he was placed in the Spielberg at See also:

• BRUNN (Czech Brno)

Brunn . His See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief work during this See also:

• PART

part of his imprisonment was the tragedy Leoniero da Dertona, for the preservation of which he was compelled to rely on his memory . After his See also:

• RELEASE (O.Fr. reles, variant of relais, from relaisser, to release, let go, Lat. relaxare)

release in 183o he commenced the publication of his prison compositions, of which the Ester was played at Turin in 1831, but immediately suppressed . In 1832 appeared his Gismonda da Mendrizio, Erodiade and the Leoniero, under the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of Tre nuovi tragedie, and in the same year the work which gave him his See also:

• EUROPEAN

European fame, Le Mie prigioni, an See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of his sufferings in prison . The last gained him the friendship of the Marchesa di Barolo, the reformer of the Turin prisons, and in 1834 he accepted from her a yearly See also:

• PENSION (Lat. pensio, a payment, from pendere, to weigh, to pay)

pension of 1200 francs . His tragedy Tommaso See also:

• MORO, ANTONIO (c. 1512-1575)

Moro had been published in 1833, his most important subsequent publication being the Opere inedite in 1837 . On the decease of his parents in 1838 he was received into the Casa Barolo, where he remained till his death, assisting the marchesa in her charities, and See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing chiefly upon religious themes . Of these See also:

• WORKS

works the best known is the Dei Doveri degli uomini, a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of trite See also:

• MAXIMS, LEGAL

maxims which do See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour to his piety rather than to his See also:

• CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical See also:

• JUDGMENT

judgment . A fragmentary See also:

• BIOGRAPHY (from the Gr. (3ios, life, and yp&4 , writing)

biography of the marchesa by Pellico was published in Italian and See also:

• ENGLISH

English after her death . He died on the 31st of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1854, and was buried in the Campo Santo at Turin . His writings are defective in virility and breadth of thought, and his tragedies display neither the insight into See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character nor the constructive See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power of a See also:

• GREAT

great dramatist . It is in the See also:

• SIMPLE

simple narrative and naive egotism of Le Mie prigioni that he has established his strongest claim to remembrance, winning fame by his misfortunes rather than by his See also:

• GENIUS (from Lat. genere, gignere)

genius .

See See also:

• PIERO (1443—1496)

Piero Maroncelli, Addizioni alle mie prigioni (See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, 1834) ; the See also:

• BIOGRAPHIES

biographies by Latour; Gabriele See also:

• ROSSELLI, COSIMO (1439—c. 1507)

Rosselli; Didier, Revue See also:

• DES

des deux mondes (See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1842) ; De Lomenie, Galerie des contemp. illustr. iv . (1842); Chiala (Turin, 1852); See also:

• NOLLET, JEAN ANTOINE (1700-1770)

Nollet-See also:

• FABERT, ABRAHAM DE (1599-166o)

Fabert (1854); Giorgio Bria*10 (1854); See also:

• BOURDON, FRANCOIS LOUIS (d. 1797)

Bourdon (1868); Rivieri (1899-1901) .