Carlo Poerio

Carlo Poerio (born Oct. 13, 1803, Naples—died April 28, 1867, Florence) was an Italian revolutionary, distinguished for his services to liberalism during the Risorgimento. The son of the Neapolitan lawyer and liberal Baron Giuseppe Poerio and the brother of the poet and soldier Alessandro Poerio, Carlo shared in the exiles of his family from Naples by the Bourbons; and, when he returned to Naples in 1833, he was an object of constant suspicion, though he...