FIESCHI, GIUSEPPE

joozĕpˈpā fyāˈskē, 1790–1836, French conspirator, b. Corsica. He was a soldier in the Napoleonic army. A radical, he attempted in July, 1835, to assassinate King Louis Philippe. He rigged up an arrangement of several guns that fired together, killing approximately 18 people. He was executed. His attempted assassination resulted in increased repression by the government.

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books on: Fieschi Giuseppe  - 18 results

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Giuseppe Verdi: His Life and Works
Book by Francis Toye; Alfred A. Knopf, 1931
Subjects: Verdi, Giuseppe--1813-1901
...against maidenly reticence and delicacy." * Weissmann. It was long thought that "Boccanegra" was inspired by Schillers play about the Fieschi and that its subsequent revision was due to Verdis seeing the play in Germany. This is an error.
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Mazzini and the Secret Societies: The Making of a Myth
Book by E. E. Y. Hales; P.J. Kenedy & Sons, 1956
Subjects: Mazzini, Giuseppe--1805-1872
...Trappist monk. However, we hear no more of his Polish friends plot. In July of the following year a Corsican, Giuseppe Fieschi, with four companions, threw a bomb at Louis Philippe, producing slaughter amongst his entourage -- no fewer...
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The Choral Tradition: An Historical and Analytical Survey from the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day
Book by Percy M. Young; W. W. Norton, 1962
Subjects: Choral Music, Choral Music--Analysis, Appreciation
...1588 , 51 Festa, Constanza 1490-1545 , 21 Fetis, Francois Joseph 1784-1871 , 199 Fielding, Henry, 105 , 257 Fieschi, Giuseppe Marco, 227 Finzi, Gerald 1901-1956 , 313 Fitzwilliam Music , 160 Five Tudor Portraits Vaughan Williams , 300...
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Selected Letters
Book by Adrian Williams, Franz Liszt; Clarendon Press, 1998
Subjects: Composers--Correspondence, Liszt, Franz--1811-1886--Correspondence
...364 -5, 370 , 391 , 679 Feuerbach, Ludwig 1804-72 , German philosopher 206 Fiedler, Conrad 1841-95 794 Fieschi, Giuseppe 1790-1836 , Corsican conspirator 47 Firdusi c. 935-c.1020 , Persian poet 993 Firmin, Jean-Baptiste 1784...
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The Cambridge Modern History - Vol. 13
Book by A. W. Ward, G. W. Prothero, Stanley Leathes; Cambridge University Press, 1911
Subjects: History, Modern
...Atlantic Monthly , vn 746 Fiennes, Nathaniel, IV 393 W. See Saye and Sele, Viscount Fiereck, General, XI 603 sq. Fieschi, Giuseppe, x 492 Fiesco, Gianluigi, leader of rising in Genoa, n 81 sq. Fiesole, Braccio Martelli, Bishop of, n 666...
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journal articles on: Fieschi Giuseppe  - 3 results

 
 
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News from Negroponte: Politics, Popular Opinion, and Information Exchange in the First Decade of the Italian Press*
Journal article by Margaret Meserve; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 59, 2006
Subjects: Italian history--Media coverage, Press--Analysis, Press--History
...10783*; IGI 620 8. Giorgio Fieschi, Eubois Naples, Sixtus Riessinger...pontificatu Pauli II. Ed. Giuseppe Zippel. Citta di Castello...1556. Diario Ferrarese. Ed. Giuseppe Pardi. Bologna, 1928. Dooley...15. Vatican City, 1980. Fieschi, Giorgio. Eubois. Naples...
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Rethinking Eighteenth-century Rome
Journal article by Wendy Wassying Roworth; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 83, 2001
Subjects: Art exhibits, Bowron, Edgar Peters, Catalogs, Rishel, Joseph J, Roman civilization
...the Vision of Saint Catherine Fieschi Adorno of Genoa (1737, Galleria...while the reverent Catherine Fieschi Adorno kneels before him in...strangest pictures shown was Giuseppe Cadess Saint Peter Appearing...Mengs, Bernardo Nocchi, Giuseppe Bottani, Gaspare Landi, Angelica...
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Out of the Margins: Religion and the Church in Renaissance Italy [*
Journal article by David S. Peterson; Vol. 53, 2000
Subjects: Church history--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Historiography--Criticism, interpretation, etc., History, Modern--15th century, Italy--Religion, Religion--Historiography, Renaissance--History
...insegnata. La domenicana genovese Tommasina Fieschi e i suoi scritti 1448ca.-1534. Florence...fin du Moyen Age. Paris. Raspini, Giuseppe. 1962. Larchivio vescovile di Fiesole...Umbria. 3 vols. Leiden. Toffanin, Giuseppe. 1919. Che cosa fu lumanesimo? Il...


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encyclopedia articles on: Fieschi Giuseppe  - 2 results

 
 
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Fieschi, Giuseppe
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FIESCHI, GIUSEPPE joozep pa fya ske, 1790 1836, French conspirator, b. Corsica. He was a soldier in the Napoleonic army. A radical, he attempted...
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Louis Philippe
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...outlook was strengthened by a number of workers demonstrations and by several attempts on his life, notably that of Giuseppe Fieschi (1835). Although the king was a constitutional monarch, he gained considerable personal power by splitting the...


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