Francesco Teodoro Arese Lucini

Francesco Teodoro Arese Lucini, count of Barlassina (Milan, 30 January 1778 – Milan, 30 April 1835) was prominent member of the Milanese resistance to the Austrian Empire, early proponent of Italian unification, and member of the House of Arese.

Francesco Hayez, Portrait of Count Arese in Prison (1828)

He was held in the Špilberk Castle and sentenced to death (later commuted) by Francis I, Emperor of Austria for his former alliance with Eugène de Beauharnais, Viceroy of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy, and for conspiring to liberate Lombardy and unite it with Piedmont.[1][2][3]

References

  1. Jacopetti, Maggiore (1845). Biografie di Achille Fontanelli, di Francesco Teodoro Arese e di Pietro Teulie ́, scritte dal Maggiore Jacopetti (in Italian). Coi tipi Borroni e Scotti.
  2. Mazzocca, Fernando (1987). "Francesco Teodoro Arese Lucini, un mecenate milanese del Risorgimento". Arte Lombarda. 83 (4): 80–96. ISSN 0004-3443. JSTOR 43130216.
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