ORSINI, FELICE

fālēˈchā, 1819–58, Italian patriot who attempted to assassinate the French emperor Napoleon III. He was a follower of Mazzini in the movement for Italian unification. As a young man he became an active revolutionary in the Papal States and in Tuscany. He was jailed (1855–56) by the Austrians for his activities but escaped. In 1857 he broke with Mazzini, and in 1858 he made an attempt on the life of Napoleon III, whom he held responsible for the failure of the Italian revolutions of 1848–49. Although ably defended by Jules Favre, he was executed. His act, designed to arouse world interest in the Italian cause, paradoxically influenced Napoleon's own decision to intervene in favor of Italian unification.

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books on: Orsini Felice  - 120 results

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The Book of Assassins: A Biographical Dictionary from Ancient Times to the Present
Book by George Fetherling; Wiley, 2001
Subjects: Assassins--Biography--Dictionaries
...Bloomington, Indiana, 1993). ORSINI, Felice (a.k.a. Francisco Pinelli...1858. Orsinis father was Andrea Orsini, a member of the Carbonari...For all his familys radicalism, Felice Orsini was reared in an atmosphere of...
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Historical Dictionary of the French Second Empire, 1852-1870
Book by William E. Echard; Greenwood Press, 1985
Subjects: France--History--Second Empire, 1852-1870--Dictionaries
...AUTHORITARIAN EMPIRE; ORLEANISM; PRINCE PRESIDENT. ORSINI, FELICE 1819-1858 , the Italian patriot whose attempted assassination...all of whom were arrested within hours, was Felice Orsini, a former agent of Giuseppe Mazzini. Orsini had recently...
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The Life and Times of Cavour - Vol. 2
Book by William Roscoe Thayer; Houghton Mifflin, 1911
Subjects: Cavour, Camillo Benso--Conte Di--1810-1861
...Congress of Paris, 1 , 375 ; and the Italian Question, 383 ; 380 and n., 391, 412. Orsini, father of Felice, 1 ,496, 519 and n. Orsini, Felice, arrested and escapes, 1 , 270 ; his attempt to kill N., 494 ff. ; carnage wrought by...
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A Short History of the Italian People: From the Barbarian Invasions to the Present Day
Book by Janet Penrose Trevelyan; George Allen & Unwin, 1956
Subjects: Italy--History
...Louis Napoleon , 346 , 352 , 360 , 366 -7; the Orsini affair, 356 ; Pact of Plombieres, 356 ; war with...of, 169 and n. Orseolo II., Doge, 91 -2. Orsini, Felice, 356 and n. Orsini family, 117 , 121 , 138 , 140 , 204 -5. Ostia...
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A Short History of the Italian People from the Barbarian Invasions to the Attainment of Unity
Book by Janet Penrose Trevelyan; Putnam, 1920
Subjects: Italy--History
...Louis Napoleon , 503 , 512 , 524 , 534 -5; the Orsini affair, 517 ; Pact of Plombieres, 518 ; war with...of, 237 and n. Orseolo II., Doge, 117 -19 Orsini, Felice, 517 and n. Orsini family, 159 , 164 -5, 190 , 193 , 290 -2 Ostia...
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journal articles on: Orsini Felice  - 16 results

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The Pope's Daughter: The Extraordinary Life of Felice Della Rovere
Journal article by Elizabeth S. Cohen; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 59, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Pope's Daughter: The Extraordinary Life of Felice della Rovere (Book)--Book reviews
...influence uncertain. Felice came into her own only...well-endowed old Roman Orsini family. Political maneuvering...most clearly, we see Felice as not only a woman shaped...In this context I find Felice interesting less for...gubernatrix" of the Orsini. The story unfolds in...
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Women on the Quirinal Hill: Patronage in Rome, 1560-1630
Journal article by Carolyn Valone; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 76, 1994
Subjects: Architecture, Area planning & development, Patronage, Renaissance period, Rome Italy, Women
...daughter-in-law, Felice Orsini Colonna, Giovanna was...Giovanna dAragona, and Felice Orsini Colonna (d. 1596...Strada Pia and the Strada Felice, today the via XX Settembre...60) Francesca Baglioni Orsini, between 1600 and 1613...
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The British & the Risorgimento
Journal article by Peter Clements; History Review, 1999
Subjects: International relations--United Kingdom, Italy--Politics and government, Nationalism--International aspects, Political leadership--Italy, United Kingdom--History
...figure for the British to take widely to their hearts. Felice Orsini was found to have plotted the assassination of Napoleon...of resentment against this pressure. An accomplice of Orsini was cleared to loud cheers in an English court of law...
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Our English Coasts, 1852: William Holman Hunt and Invasion Fear at Midcentury
Journal article by Jonathan P. Ribner; Art Journal, Vol. 55, 1996
Subjects: Art criticism, England, France, History, Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910), International relations, Military engagements, Perceptions
...accord that blessed the Exposition Universelle was shattered on January 14, 1858, when the Italian revolutionary Felice Orsini attempted to blow up the Brummagem Bonaparte with a bomb allegedly made in Birmingham. A new invasion panic ensued...
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Raphael, Angelo Colocci, and the Genesis of the Architectural Orders
Journal article by Ingrid D. Rowland; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 76, 1994
Subjects: Architecture, Colocci, Angelo, Jargon, Literary criticism, Sanzio, Raffaello
...Girolamo Borgia celebrated the garden with an "Ecloga Felix" dedicated to Colocci, Julius II, and his daughter Felice della Rovere Orsini, BAV, Cod. Vat. lat. 5225, 1013v-1015v. 23 The breadth of Coloccis intellectual interests emerge plainly...
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magazine articles on: Orsini Felice  - 5 results

 
 
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The Orsini Affair and the Crisis of 1858: Terry Jenkins Explains Why a Failed Assassination Attempt on Napoleon III Brought Down the British Government in 1858
Magazine article by Terry Jenkins; History Today, Vol. 59, February 2008
Subjects: Assassination--Planning, British foreign relations--History, British foreign relations--Political aspects, Emperors--Social aspects, Napoleon III, Emperor of France--Social aspects
The Orsini Affair and the Crisis of 1858: Terry Jenkins...betrayal of their cause. The ringleader, Felice Orsini, and his associate, Pierri, were executed...But the public debate surrounding the Orsini affair also raised sensitive questions...
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Striking a Blow for Freedom: Jad Adams Traces the Momentous and Paradoxical Consquences of a Failed Assassination Attempt
Magazine article by Jad Adams; History Today, Vol. 53, September 2003
Subjects: Italy--History, Napoleon III, Emperor of France, Orsini, Felice--Cases, Orsini, Felice--Political activity, Political crimes and offenses--Cases
...Jad Adams DASHING ITALIAN PATRIOT Felice Orsini received a rapturous welcome in...the Fulham Road, west London. Orsini was captured by the Austrians and...The Memoirs and Adventures of Felice Orsini followed in 1857. While he toured...
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Napoleon Iii, Lord Palmerston and the Entente Cordiale
Magazine article by Roman Golicz; History Today, Vol. 50, December 2000
Subjects: France--History, United Kingdom--History
...assassinate Napoleon III in the streets of Paris, the plot hatched in London by political refugees. The Italian patriot Felice Orsini, aided by a Spaniard and two other Italians, threw three bombs (manufactured in Birmingham and filled with explosives...
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Returning Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera to Sweden
Magazine article by Philip Gossett; Scandinavian Review, Vol. 92, Summer 2004
Subjects: Composers, Opera, Scripts, Sweden, Theater criticism, Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901)
...Rigoletto from the censors in Venice at the beginning of the 1850s. But during Verdis sea voyage from Genoa to Naples, Felice Orsini attempted to assassinate Napoleon III in Paris. The reverberations from the Italian anarchists bomb, which killed...
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Stunning
Magazine article by David Adjmi; American Theatre, Vol. 25, September 2008
...to go // theh. SHELLY: With who Olga? LILY: I dont go there // anymore. SHELLY: Was she fat? // LILY: I go to Ana Orsini // SHELLY: I used to go there. Stop. LILY: I have a French manicuah. (Shows her the manicure) SHELLY: Heeeee: Stunning...


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newspaper articles on: Orsini Felice  - 3 results

 
 
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MP, Radical & Publisher; Joseph Cowen Was Ahead of His Times in 19th Century. A Friend of Revolutionaries, He Fought to Abolish Slavery and He Campaigned for the Vote. He Angered Gladstone and Queen Victoria Was Not Amused at His Rabble Rousing -in Other Words, He Was the Perfect Man to Launch the Chronicle. MIKE KELLY Reports
Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), November 2, 2010
Subjects: Legislators, Slavery, Unification of Italy, 1870
...Giuseppe Mazzini, the soul of Italy who helped form modern Italy and Alexander Herzen, the father of Russian Socialism. Felice Orsini and Giuseppe Garibaldi, the foremost military and political figure of Italy and still a national hero, both visited...
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Dressed Up for Family Tradition
Newspaper article; South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales), August 1, 2011
...rubber attached. * Papers of Darwins theory of evolution is read for the first time at Londons Linnean Society. * Felice Orsini and accomplices are executed for a failed assassination attempt on Napoleon III. * Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd...
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Cowen's Extraordinary Life
Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), November 2, 2010
...independence from Tsarist Russia. As a result, he became friends with European figures like Giuseppe Garibaldi, Felice Orsini and Lajos Kossuth. In 1874, he was elected MP, succeeding his father and was a strong Radical on domestic issues...


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encyclopedia articles on: Orsini Felice  - 2 results

 
 
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Orsini, Felice
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ORSINI, FELICE fale cha orse ne, 1819 58, Italian patriot who attempted to assassinate the French emperor Napoleon III. He was a follower of...
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Favre, Jules
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...government. Under Emperor Napoleon III he was a leader of the constitutional opposition. In 1858 he courageously defended Felice Orsini . At the end of the Franco-Prussian War, Favre served briefly as foreign minister of the provisional government...


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