Luigi Benoitwas who was dedicated to the study of the ornithology was arrested for supporting political reform and he later published a book.
Luigi Benoit was dedicated to the study of the ornithology and conchology of Sicily. In 1828 he was arrested and condemned to 18 years of imprisonment in Palermo for supporting political reform. In 1840 he published Ornitologia Siciliana Sicilian Ornithology. 
