Augusto Armellini ( 1827 – 2 March 1912) was an
Italian
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politician. He was the son of
Carlo Armellini
Carlo Armellini (1777 – 6 June 1863) was a Roman politician, activist and jurist.
He was part of the triumvirate leading the short-lived Roman Republic (19th century), Roman Republic in 1849, together with Giuseppe Mazzini and Aurelio Saffi.
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and his second wife, the artist
Faustina Bracci. He was acting mayor of Rome from July 1880 to October 1881, and mayor of
Rome
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,
Kingdom of Italy
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, from 1889 to 1890. Shortly afterwards he was struck by blindness and paralysis. After a lifetime of fierce opposition to the Catholic church, he underwent a death-bed conversion before his death at the age of 86. He was buried in the
Campo Verano
The Campo Verano (Italian: ''Cimitero del Verano'') is a cemetery in Rome, Italy, founded in the early 19th century. The monumental cemetery covers a surface area of 83 hectares which is currently divided into several sections: the main Catholic ...
.
''Death-bed Conversion: Ex-Mayor Armellini, a Lifelong Enemy of the Church, Repents on His Death-bed'' in "Saint Paul Catholic Bulletin", 6 April 1912, p. 1/8
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19th-century Italian politicians
Mayors of Rome
1912 deaths
1820s births
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