Ciro Menotti [SEP] date of birth
Ciro Menotti
Ciro Menotti (22 January 1798 – 23 May 1831) was an Italian patriot.
Biography.
Menotti was born in Migliarina, near Carpi, then part of the Duchy of Modena and Reggio.
A member of the Carboneria since 1817, he was a fervent democratic and patriot. From 1820 he held contacts with French intellectuals, with the goal to free Modena from the Austrian hegemony.
Initially, duke Francis IV declared favorably for Menotti's claim, probably encouraged at the possibility of becoming its
states in central and northern Italy, particularly the Papal States and Modena.
Ciro Menotti was to take the reins of the initiative, trying to find the support of Duke Francis IV of Modena, who pretended to respond positively in return for granting the title of King of Italy, but the Duke made the double play and Menotti, virtually unarmed, was arrested the day before the date fixed for the uprising. Francis IV, at the suggestion of the Austrian statesman Klemens von Metternich, had condemned him to death, along