Note 546 — BOOK III[496]
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Silvio Pellico (1788-1854), an Italian poet and prose-writer, arrested as a Carbonaro in 1820 and imprisoned for two years in Milan and Venice. In 1822, he was condemned to death, but his sentence was commuted and he was kept as a prisoner, from 1822 to 1830, at the Spielberg, near Brünn. Pellico's chief works are his tragedies, Francesca da Rimini and Laodamia, and his autobiographical work, Le mie Prigioni (1833), which achieved an immense popularity throughout Europe.—T.