About Luigi Settembrini
Lived 1813 – 1876 (aged 63). Luigi Settembrini was an Italian writer, politician, jurist, literary historian and university teacher.
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Luigi Settembrini (17 April 1813, Naples – 3 November 1877, Florence) was an Italian man of letters and politician.
Biography Born in Naples, his paternal grandfather was an immigrant from Bollita (the actual Nova Siri), in the province of Matera. Aged 22, he was appointed professor of eloquence at Catanzaro, and married Raffaela Luigia Faucitano (1835). While still a young man he had been affected by the wave of liberalism then spreading all over Italy, and soon after his marriage he began to conspire mildly against the Bourbon government.
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Italian man of letters and politician (1813-1876)
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Luigi Settembrini was born on 17 April 1813 in Naples.
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Luigi Settembrini died on 4 November 1876 in Naples.
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Luigi Settembrini was a writer, politician, jurist, literary historian and university teacher.
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