Draft:Giovan Battista Falcone

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Giovan Battista Falcone

Biography

Son of Angiolo and Mariantonia Giannone, heir from both parents to two of the wealthiest and highest-ranking families of

Sanseverino princes of Bisignano. The life of young Giovanni Battista is strongly linked to the Muratian ideals, which animated the salons and cultural circles of the South between 1850 and 1860. His patriotic ideals began from a very young age, in secondary school. In fact, Vincenzo Padula wrote: "when Ferdinand II of Bourbon wanted to indicate a 'hothead,' a person who loved civil liberty and the independence of the Fatherland, he used to say 'Calabrian head,' just as, speaking of the college[2] of S. Adriano in San Demetrio Corone, he called it 'a forge of devils'." And in this forge, the young Falcone was formed, sent to study at the nearby college, as befitting a scion of a noble family. "Unfortunately, his ideals could not be tolerated, and therefore the son (a rebel), who wanted to pursue a life and career in the clergy, was urgently transferred to the diocesan college of Bisignano, where he completed his studies before going to Naples. There he joined his brother Francesco, who was already a law student, at the home of the brothers Francesco and Vincenzo Sprovieri, where he met old friends such as Domenico Mauro, Agesilao Milano, Francesco Tocci, Attanasio Dramis, already intent on preparing the assassination attempt against Ferdinand II of Bourbon
.

He was a friend of

Bourbon conspiracy, on December 13, 1856, of Demetrio Baffa, of Domenico Damis and of Carlo Pisacane, co-designer with Giovanni Battista and Giovanni Nicotera of the failed landing on the island of Ponza in 1857 (the so-called Sapri Expedition), all of republican faith and followers of the ideas of Mazzini
.
Falcone, who had emigrated to Malta and to the Sardinian States, participated in this tragic expedition, ending up massacred on July 2 in Sanza, embraced together with Carlo Pisacane by the local population incited by pro-Bourbon sentiments.

Notes

  1. ^ Portal of the History of Italians - Access Denied
  2. ^ not Catholic, but Greek Orthodox, which also hosted students of Albanian origin (See Mario Brunetti)

Bibliography

  • Newton Compton
    , Rome 1975
  • Michelangelo Mendella, "Agesilao Milano and the anti-Bourbon conspiracy of 1856", in: Rassegna storica del Risorgimento, LXI (1974)
  • Raffaele Capalbo, Historical Memories, Naples 1908.
  • Paolo Alatri, "Speech given in Acri on the occasion of the centenary of the Sapri Expedition".
  • Paolo Emilio Bilotti, The Sapri Expedition, from Genoa to Sanza, Salerno 1907.
  • Leopoldo Cassese, The trial for the Sapri Expedition, inventory of Salerno, 1957.
  • Southern Chronicles, (monograph on Pisacane), June 1957.
  • L. Del Monte, Chronicles of the secret committee of Naples, Naples 1877
  • A. Natta, For a critical revaluation of C. Pisacane in Sapri with unpublished documents, Naples 1863.
  • Giacomo Racioppi,The expedition of C. Pisacane to Sapri, Library of the Risorgimento.
  • Jessie Mario White, Journal des débats, July 27, 1857.
  • Vincenzo Padula, Funeral Oration for Mariantonia Falcone, Naples 1874, reprinted by the G. B. Falcone Studies Center, Acri 1994.
  • Mario Brunetti, The square of revolt, Rubbettino Editore, 2003, ISBN 8849806035

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