Francesco Teodoro Arese Lucini (

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...

, 30 January 1778 – Milan, 30 April 1835) was a prominent member of the Milanese resistance to the

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, early proponent of

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, and member of the

House of Arese The Arese (or Aresi, Aresio, or Arexio in ancient form) are a prominent family of the Milanese nobility. Origins Originating in the comune of Arese on the outskirts of Milan and descending from the Lombard Captains of Arexio (Capitanei d'Are ...

. He was held in the

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and sentenced to death (later commuted) by

Francis I, Emperor of Austria Francis II (german: Franz II.; 12 February 1768 – 2 March 1835) was the last Holy Roman Emperor (from 1792 to 1806) and the founder and Emperor of the Austrian Empire, from 1804 to 1835. He assumed the title of Emperor of Austria in response ...

for his former alliance with

Eugène de Beauharnais Eugène Rose de Beauharnais, Duke of Leuchtenberg (; 3 September 1781 – 21 February 1824) was a French nobleman, statesman, and military commander who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. Through the second marr ...

, Viceroy of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy, and for conspiring to liberate

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and unite it with

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Gallery

File:Giuseppe Sogni Francesco Arese Lucini.jpg,

Giuseppe Sogni Giuseppe Sogni (May 18, 1795 – August 11, 1874) was an Italian painter. He was born in Robbiano near Crema, Lombardy. He began studying sculpture under Vincenzo Pacetti, but chose painting as a career. From 1832 to 1836, he was a pupil of Luig ...

, ''Portrait of Count Arese'', 1855 File:Filippo Pelagio Palagi Bildnis des Conte Colonnello Teodoro Arese Lucini.jpg,

Pelagio Palagi Pelagio Palagi (25 May 1775 – 6 March 1860) was an Italian painter, sculptor and interior decorator. Biography Early life Pelagi was born in Bologna. Starting at a very young age the study of perspective, architecture, figurative and po ...

, ''Portrait of Colonel Teodoro Arese Lucini''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Arese Lucini, Francesco Teodoro 1778 births 1835 deaths Italian people of the Italian unification Prisoners sentenced to death by Austria People from Milan 19th-century Italian people