Poerio, Carlo, Italian patriot; was conspicuous in the revolutionary movement of 1848; was arrested and banished, but escaped to England, where he was received with sympathy by Mr. Gladstone among others; he rose into power on the establishment of the kingdom of Italy (1803‒1867).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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