Fra Diavolo, chief of a band of Italian brigands, born in Calabria; leader in sundry Italian insurrections; was hanged at Naples for treachery, in spite of remonstrances from England; gave name to an opera by Auber, but only the name (1760‒1806).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Foyers, Fall of * Fracas`toro, Girolamo