Luigi Miceli (7 June 1824 in

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– 30 December 1906, in Rome), was an Italian patriot, politician and a military figure, a capitan in the conflicts of the Risorgimento and a leading military figure to the Italian Liberation and Unification in 1861.

Biography

Luigi Miceli was a young 22-year-old lawyer when he became a member of Giovane Italia (1844), he was the leading figure in the preparation to the

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n insurrection in 1847 and 1848. The same year (in 1848) The Calabrian insurrection failed, and he escaped at first to

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and later to Genoa under the protection of The Republica Romana (1849). He was condemned to death in absentia at his trial in 1854. Before the Liberation of Italy in 1861, he became a member of the Società nazionale italiana, and participated at the second war of independence with the

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. He was at the right hand of

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and

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(1859). In 1860, he was among the leading organisers and a capitan of the

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. He led the occupation of

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. Soon after The Unification of

he became a politician, and in 1878 he became minister of Agriculture and later Minister of Industry and Commerce and a Senator.

Bibliography

* Luca Addante, "Luigi Miceli (1824–1906)" in ''Cosenza e i cosentini: un volo lungo tre millenni''. Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino Editore, 2001, pp. 86–87, , . {{DEFAULTSORT:Miceli, Luigi Italian people of the Italian unification People from the Province of Cosenza 1824 births 1906 deaths Members of the Senate of the Kingdom of Italy