Confalonieri conspired against Austria and had his death sentence commuted to exile

Evidence

Federico Confalonieri (1785-1846) was a conspirator, inventor and journalist. He was a member of the “Italici ” in opposition to Napoleon in 1814, and subsequently of the anti-Austrian “federati ” with wide contacts in French liberal circles. He tried to introduce gas-lighting and river steamboats during this period. In 1821 he plotted a rising in Lombardy to coincide with the Piedmont rising of that year. He was arrested, and his interrogation and trial lasted until 1823, when he was sentenced to death—though this was commuted to life imprisonment, and later to exile. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1955

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