Count Gennaro Arcucci (died 1800) was an Italian physician, antiquarian and a hero of the island of

Capri Capri ( , ; ; ) is an island located in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the Sorrento Peninsula, on the south side of the Gulf of Naples in the Campania region of Italy. The main town of Capri that is located on the island shares the name. It has been ...

and Caprese martyr in the Bourbon Restoration of

Ferdinand I Ferdinand I or Fernando I may refer to: People * Ferdinand I of León, ''the Great'' (ca. 1000–1065, king from 1037) * Ferdinand I of Portugal and the Algarve, ''the Handsome'' (1345–1383, king from 1367) * Ferdinand I of Aragon and Sicily, '' ...

. He was said to have been the principal signori of the island who used to "entertain the King during his visits to the island and offer him draughts of his far-famed 'Tears of Tiberius'". He was hanged by the Bourbons in 1800, "as a 'liberal'". A plaque commemorates him on the Piazza Umberto I.

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People from Capri, Campania 1800 deaths 18th-century Italian physicians Italian antiquarians Year of birth unknown Physicians from the Kingdom of Naples {{Italy-bio-stub