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    Felice Orsini (Italian pronunciation: [feˈliːtʃe orˈsiːni]; French: [fəlis ɔʁsini]; 10 December 1819 – 13 March 1858) was an Italian revolutionary and...
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    France, and held the position of Orsini Signora for over a decade following the death of her husband in 1517. Felice further increased her power through...
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  • wrestler and bodybuilder Felice Orsini (1819–1858), Italian revolutionary who attempted to assassinate Napoléon III Francesca Orsini, Italian scholar of South...
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    The House of Orsini is an Italian noble family that was one of the most influential princely families in medieval Italy and Renaissance Rome. Members of...
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    (French: attentat d'Orsini): the attempt made on 14 January 1858 by Felice Orsini, with other Italian nationalists and backed by English radicals, to...
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    The Orsini bomb was a terrorist improvised explosive device built by and named after Felice Orsini and used as a hand grenade on 14 January 1858 in an...
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    Gian Giordano Orsini, IV Lord of Bracciano (Bracciano, c. 1460 – Vicovaro, 1517) was an Italian nobleman and condottiero. He married Felice della Rovere...
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  • rights activist Felice Guarneri (1882–1955), Italian economist and politician Felice Orsini (1819–1858), an Italian revolutionary Felice Platone (1896–1962)...
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    with Daniele Manin. After meeting Felice Orsini, Hodge struck up a friendship with him. In the Appendix to Orsini's memoirs, written for the second edition...
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  • Angelo Francesca Inaudi as Young Cristina of Belgiojoso Guido Caprino as Felice Orsini Renato Carpentieri as Carlo Poerio Ivan Franěk as Simon Bernard Andrea...
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    the Roman family of the Orsini. The son of Girolamo Orsini and Francesca Sforza, he was grandson, on his father's side, of Felice della Rovere (illegitimate...
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    400 years. On 14 January 1858, an Italian refugee from Britain called Felice Orsini attempted to assassinate Napoleon III with a bomb made in England. The...
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    side with Porta Nuova). The gate was named after the wife of Colonna, Felice Orsini. On 6 July 1582 the groundbreaking ceremony took place. In the following...
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    Todaro and Sara Santostasi in the roles of Marcantonio Colonna and Felice Orsini, Mario Biondi and Max Giusti in the Saturday and Monday entertainment...
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    and the group almost succeeded in assassinating him in 1858, when Felice Orsini, Giovanni Andrea Pieri, Carlo Di Rudio and Andrea Gomez threw three...
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    the Opéra Le Peletier. The moment was chosen by Italian conspirator Felice Orsini to make an attempt on the sovereign's life. One of his accomplices threw...
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    Mazzinian propaganda and the direct action of Giuseppe Garibaldi. Men like Felice Orsini, Piero Maroncelli and Aurelio Saffi were among the protagonists of the...
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    The White Space Pietro Meno male che ci sei Giovanni 2010 We Believed Felice Orsini 2012 Breve storia di lunghi tradimenti Giulio Rovedo 2015 I calcianti...
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    Marie Félicie des Ursins (Italian: Maria Felice Orsini; 11 November 1600 – 5 June 1666) was the wife of Henri de Montmorency, 4th Duke of Montmorency...
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    with Austria for the Crimean War. Also in vain was the expedition of Felice Orsini in Carrara of 1853–1854. In 1856, he returned to Genoa to organize a...
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    were killed and one hundred and fifty injured. Four men were arrested: Felice Orsini, the leader of the plot, Giuseppi Pieri, Antonio Gomez, and a Portuguese...
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    culprits were quickly arrested. The leader was an Italian nationalist, Felice Orsini, who was aided by a French surgeon Simon François Bernard. They believed...
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  • Republic of Texas, commits suicide. January 14 – Orsini affair: Piedmontese revolutionary Felice Orsini and his accomplices fail to assassinate Napoleon...
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    ownership, the fortress was used as a prison. Among the inmates were Felice Orsini and Freemason Alessandro Cagliostro. In 1906 the fortress ceased to...
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    to aid Italy although he was still uncommitted. On 14 January 1858, Felice Orsini, an Italian, led an attempt on Napoleon III's life. The assassination...
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    (1644) – beheaded at Avignon for blasphemy by order of Pope Urban VIII Felice Orsini (1858) – executed by Napoléon III for attempting to assassinate him...
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    general security, proposed after the failed assassination attempt of Felice Orsini against Emperor Napoleon III; the law (which passed) allowed easier...
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    having publicly supported the attempted assassination of Napoleon III by Felice Orsini. He returned in May 1860, though he never received a degree. Swinburne...
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  • Giulio Orsini (died 1517) was an Italian condottiero and a member of the Orsini family. In the 1480s Giulio fought alongside his brother Paolo against...
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    Italian republican Felice Orsini tried to assassinate the French emperor with a bomb made in Britain, the French were outraged (see Orsini affair). Palmerston...
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