Tito Speri [SEP] date of birth
Tito Speri
Tito Speri (2 August 1825 - 3 March 1853) was an Italian patriot and hero of the Risorgimento.
Life.
Speri was born in Brescia.
He began his military career as a volunteer in the First Italian Independence War in 1848, has been engaged in the Battle of Sclemo and after that war ended in an armistice he returned to Brescia, where he gave clandestine assistance to preparations for the Ten Days of Brescia in which the town earned the nickname of "Leonessa d'Italia" (Lioness
Ten Days of Brescia
The Ten Days of Brescia () was a revolt which broke out in the northern Italian city of that name, which lasted from March 23 to April 1, 1849.
In the early 19th century Brescia was part of the Austrian puppet state called Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia. The revolt, headed by the patriot Tito Speri, began on the same day as the Battle of Novara (though news of Austria's victory there had not yet reached Brescia).
The Austrian troops, under