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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