Rosolino Pilo

Rosolino Pilo , also Rosalino Pilo, (born July 15, 1820 in Palermo , † May 21, 1860 in San Martino delle Scale ) was an Italian patriot .

Life

Rosolino came from the noble family of the Pilo from Genoa . The family moved to Palermo in 1560. Rosolino was the fourth son of Count Gerolamo di Capaci and his wife Antonia Gioeni. The boy lost his father early. For him the spiritual career with the Theatiners was planned. When his mother died in 1831, he left the seminary and became increasingly enthusiastic about the revolution. The rule of the Spanish Bourbons in southern Italy was a thorn in the side of the Italians in Palermo. So first of all, Pilo took part in the 1848 revolution in Sicily . Ferdinand II , King of the Two Sicilies , ultimately got the upper hand. Pilo fled to Genoa via Marseille . There he met Giuseppe Mazzini . In 1853, Pilo took part in the Milan revolt. In the summer of 1856 he allied himself with Carlo Pisacane in a renewed fight against the Spanish Bourbons in southern Italy. Both efforts to wage guerrilla warfare were unsuccessful. Pilo fled to Malta .

Soon after Giuseppe Garibaldi's victory over the Bourbons at Calatafimi , Pilo fell on May 21, 1860 near Monreale. A musket ball hit him in the head as he sat on a boulder and wrote a few lines to Garibaldi. Both freedom fighters marched on separate paths against Palermo on the day of the accident. Garibaldi took the Sicilian metropolis a week later.

literature

Ricarda Huch : The stories of Garibaldi . With an afterword by Günter Adler . 683 pages. Insel-Verlag, Leipzig 1986, © 1921 Insel-Verlag Leipzig, ISBN 3-7351-0006-6
Mario Menghini in the Enciclopedia Italiana anno 1935: Pilo, Rosolino

Web links

Commons : Rosolino Pilo - collection of images, videos and audio files

Rosolino Pilo at treccani.it (Italian)
Pilo, Rosolino at treccani.it (Italian)
Rosolino Pilo Entries on WorldCat (Italian)

Remarks

↑ It is said that Pilo always signed with Rosalino .
↑ The article was written on the basis of Rosolino Pilo (Italian).
↑ The historian Ricarda Huch her in the second part has stories of Garibaldi elaborated narrative, as Mazzini from the two Sicilians Francesco Crispi and Rosolino Pilo in Florence , was visited and talked of the fight against Austrians drain first and liberate Sicily by the Bourbons. (Huch, p. 336, 1. Zvo to p. 358 below)

Individual evidence

^ Italian family Pilo
^ Italian. The Sicilian Revolution of 1848
^ Italian. The uprising in Milan of 1853
^ Ital. The uprising of Palermo in May 1860

personal data
SURNAME	Pilo, Rosolino
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pilo, Rosalino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian freedom fighter during the Risorgimento
DATE OF BIRTH	July 15, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH	Palermo
DATE OF DEATH	May 21, 1860
Place of death	Monreale

[A1-1] It is said that Pilo always signed with Rosalino .

[A2-6] The article was written on the basis of Rosolino Pilo (Italian).

[A3-7] The historian Ricarda Huch her in the second part has stories of Garibaldi elaborated narrative, as Mazzini from the two Sicilians Francesco Crispi and Rosolino Pilo in Florence , was visited and talked of the fight against Austrians drain first and liberate Sicily by the Bourbons. (Huch, p. 336, 1. Zvo to p. 358 below)

[2] Italian family Pilo

[3] Italian. The Sicilian Revolution of 1848

[4] Italian. The uprising in Milan of 1853

[5] Ital. The uprising of Palermo in May 1860