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  1. 1819-1858. Italian political activist, a
  2. member of the Carbonari secret revolutionary
  3. group, who attempted unsuccessfully to
  4. assassinate Napoleon III in Paris Jan 1858.
  5. He was subsequently executed, but the Orsini
  6. affair awakened Napoleon's interest in Italy
  7. and led to a secret alliance with Piedmont at
  8. Plombieres 1858, directed against Italy.
  9.