Luigi Capranica del Grillo (13 November 1821 – 7 January 1891) was an Italian novelist, dramatist, and patriot.

Biography

Luigi Capranica was born in Rome to local nobility: his father was a descendant of the Marquis del Grillo through his father, and through his mother, principessa Flaminia of the

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family. While his parents intended him to study for advancement in the curia, he instead joined the ''guardia nobile'' of the pope. However, he developed interest as a writer and in 1848, he wrote ''La Congiura dei Fieschi'' and then ''

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''. Soon Rome was immersed in revolution, and in 1849, Luigi fought alongside the

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against the French and Papal forces. With the defeat of the Roman republic, and the restoration of Pope

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, he was briefly jailed, released, wounded in a duel, then exiled. Luigi made his way to Venice where he stayed over a decade. But often his revolutionary leanings led to renewed exiles. During this exile, he wrote the play ''Vittoria Accoramboni''. Ultimately he moved to Milan in 1861 where he stayed for 3 decades and married the Contessa Maria Obniski. In Venice, he had begun writing poetry and novels. The latter were mainly based on Italian agents in history: ''

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'' (1857), ''Congiura di Brescia'', ''Fra

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'' (1863), ''Donna Olimpia Panfili'' (1868), ''Papa Sisto'' (1877), '' Re Manfredi'' (1884), ''Maria Dolores'', ''Le donne di Nerone'' (1890), and ''I Moderni Farisei''.Re Manfredi: romanzo storico
Volume 1, Preface to novel; Fratelle Trevis, Milan (1894) Pages VI-XI.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Capranica, Luigi 1821 births 1891 deaths Writers from Rome Italian male novelists 19th-century Italian writers 19th-century Italian male writers 19th-century Italian dramatists and playwrights