Silvio PELLICO (1789-1854) writer; poet and Italian patriot; editor and editor of Il Conciliatore (The Peacemaker); a member of the secret society of the 'Federated'; was arrested Oct. 13; 1820 and translated to the Piombi of Venice and then in the Austrian fortress of Spielberg; where he remained ten years and took his rediscovery of the values ??of faith ; This and the harsh experience in prison he wrote in his masterpiece 'My Prisons'; a pillar of the Risorgimento movement. Colorized version of lithographic portrait (see FSNgilardi_14576.jpg) of the nineteenth century