Description
The Birthplace of Cesare Braico is Palazzo Poli, in Brindisi, where the doctor and patriot who set off with Garibaldi's Thousand was born in 1816. A plaque on the facade remembers him: a short stop, for a story worthy of a novel.
The marble plaque was put up by the Veterans' Society on February 9, 1893, with an epitaph written by Professor Lorenzo Calabrese. The city also has a bronze bust of Braico by Alessandro Fiordegiglio, from 1968, where Via Saponea, Via Cappellini and Corso Roma meet.
A medical graduate from Naples, after the 1848 revolution he was sentenced by the Bourbons to 25 years in prison and was moved from Nisida to Ischia, to Montefusco, to Montesarchio. Then King Ferdinand II decided to deport him and other political prisoners to America.
Raffaele Settembrini, son of the patriot Luigi, managed to have the ship diverted to Queenstown, in Ireland, and Braico was freed along with 67 other convicts. He then fought at Solferino and San Martino, was hailed as a hero by Nino Bixio among the Thousand and was elected a deputy in the first Italian Parliament.
The marble plaque was put up by the Veterans' Society on February 9, 1893, with an epitaph written by Professor Lorenzo Calabrese. The city also has a bronze bust of Braico by Alessandro Fiordegiglio, from 1968, where Via Saponea, Via Cappellini and Corso Roma meet.
A medical graduate from Naples, after the 1848 revolution he was sentenced by the Bourbons to 25 years in prison and was moved from Nisida to Ischia, to Montefusco, to Montesarchio. Then King Ferdinand II decided to deport him and other political prisoners to America.
Raffaele Settembrini, son of the patriot Luigi, managed to have the ship diverted to Queenstown, in Ireland, and Braico was freed along with 67 other convicts. He then fought at Solferino and San Martino, was hailed as a hero by Nino Bixio among the Thousand and was elected a deputy in the first Italian Parliament.