Carbonari - Prominent Carbonari

Prominent Carbonari

Prominent members of the Carbonari included:

  • Amand Bazard
  • Silvio Pellico (1788–1854) and Pietro Maroncelli (1795–1846)
both were imprisoned by the Austrians for years, many of which they spent in Spielberg fortress in Brno, Southern Moravia. After his release, Pellico wrote a book Le mie prigioni, describing in detail his ten-year ordeal. Maroncelli lost one leg in prison and was instrumental in translating and editing of Pellico's book in Paris (1833).
  • Giuseppe Mazzini,
  • Marquis de Lafayette (hero of the American and French Revolutions),
  • Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (the future French emperor Napoleon III) Almost certain but highly disputed.
  • French revolutionary Blanqui.
  • Lord Byron
  • Giuseppe Garibaldi

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