Giacinto Carini

Giacinto Carini (Palermo, 20 May 1821 - Rome, 16 January 1880) was a politician and Italian patriot. He participated in the Sicilian independence revolution of 1848, was a Garibaldian, a general, and a member of Parliament.

Biography He was born in Palermo on 20 May 1821. When his father, Sicilian Finance Director, died, he inherited a large fortune, which he decided to dedicate in part to trade, becoming one of the first to introduce the use of steam machines for the husking of sumac. The great repression that followed the riots of '37 pushed him towards a liberal orientation; he had in friendship liberals like Mariano Stabile and Salvatore Vigo, who sometimes helped him in his agricultural entrepreneurship. In 1848, he participated in the Sicilian Revolution that broke out on 12 January: Carini was among the members of the First Committee.

He was appointed colonel by Ruggero Settimo (head of the government that was temporarily established), who entrusted him with the command of the 1st cavalry regiment: Giacinto Carini's task was to restore order in Burgio, in the district of Bivona in the province of Girgenti, a country in the throes of tumults and excesses.

He lived in Paris until 1859, when he enlisted in the Hunters of the Alps, fighting in the second war of independence.

In 1860, driven by the desire to free Sicily from the dominion of the Bourbons, he joined the Thousand led by Giuseppe Garibaldi: After the ' unification of Italy, by April 18, 1862 in' Italian regular army, where the rank of brigadier general fought in the Third War of Independence. Palermo, Piacenza, Sant'Arcangelo di Romagna and Iesi from 1861 to 1880. Promoted to lieutenant general in 1871, he commanded the division of Perugia from 1871 to 1877. From 1878, he was made available by the war minister Mezzacapo, who, according to Carini, wanted to gradually remove him from the institutions as a Sicilian and a Garibaldian. Also in Rome on the Janiculumthere is a Bust of Giacinto Carini. Rome and Padua have dedicated a street to him.

His son Isidoro Carini (1843-1895) was a religious, a journalist and a distinguished historian and paleographer.