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Silvio Pellico
Silvio Pellico was an Italian writer, poet, dramatist and patriot active in the Italian unification. His legacy is mainly linked to his memoirs My Prisons.
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culture · Italian writer, poet and dramatist (1789–1854) · writer · poet · playwright · teacher · journalist · also Silvio Pellico, Pellico
Born 24 June 1789 · Died 31 January 1854 · Q435151
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2020· 2 entries
Il Gazzettino: Silvio Pellico, quel legame indistricabile e l'amore per la "Zanze"
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1854· 1 entry
Died 1854-01-31.
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1838· 1 entry
Was received into the Casa Barolo, where he remained until his death, assisting the marchesa in her charities, and writing chiefly upon religious themes, the best known of which is the essay Dei doveri degli uomini
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1834· 1 entry
Accepted from her a yearly pension of 1200 francs
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1833· 1 entry
His most important subsequent publication being the Opere inedite in 1837
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1832· 1 entry
His Gismonda da Mendrisio, Erodiade and the Leoniero, appeared under the title of Tre nuove tragedie, and in the same year, the work which gave him his European fame, Le mie prigioni, an account of his sufferings in pris
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1830· 1 entry
Commenced the publication of his prison compositions, of which the Ester was played at Turin in 1831, but was immediately suppressed
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1815· 1 entry
And published three years later, is one of the first and one of the most successful to be inspired by the famous episode in the fifth canto of Dante's Inferno
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1810· 1 entry
Became professor of French in the Collegio degli Orfani Militari, now the Scuola Militare Teulié
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1809· 1 entry
And settled in Milan, where he became part of the circle that gravitated towards Ugo Foscolo and Vincenzo Monti and included such contemporaries as Ludovico di Breme, Giovanni Berchet, and Pietro Borsieri
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1789· 1 entry
Born 1789-06-24.
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