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MONTANELLI, GIUSEPPE (1813-1862) , Italian statesman and author, was born at Fucecchio in Tuscany, and in 1840 was appointed law professor at Pisa. He contributed to the Antologia, a celebrated Florentine review , and in 1847 founded a newspaper called L' Italia, the programme of which was " Reform and Nationality." In 1848 Montanelli served with the Tuscan student volunteers at the battle of Curtatone, where he was wounded and taken prisoner by the Austrians. On being liberated he returned to Tuscany, and the grand duke Leopold
Leopold , much against his inclinations, asked him to form a ministry
union of Tuscany with Rome. But after the restoration of the grand duke, Montanelli, who was in Paris, was tried and condemned by default; he remained some years in France, where he became a partizan of Napoleon
parliament ; he died in 1862. He was an enthusiastic, but a fickle and ambitious demagogue, and he achieved a betterreputation as a writer. His most important literary work
Turin
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