Nicola Fabrizi

Italian patriot and politician, born in Modena, Emilia-Romagna, N Italy. He took part in the 1831 Modena risings, escaping first to France and then to Malta. Back in Italy he fought for the Roman Republic (1849) and helped Carlo Pisacane and Giuseppe Garibaldi with their expeditions. He fought with Garibaldi at Aspromonte (1862) and in the 3rd Independence War in 1866. He became a deputy of the left in 1861.

Nicola Fabrizi (4 April 1804 - 31 March 1885), Italian patriot, was born at Modena.

He took part in the Modena insurrection of 1831, and attempted to succour Ancona, but was arrested at sea and taken to Toulon, whence he proceeded to Marseilles.

At the end of the Carlist War he established a centre of conspiracy at Malta, endeavoured to dissuade Mazzini from the Bandiera enterprise, but aided Crispi in organizing the Sicilian revolution of 1848. Upon the fall of Rome he returned to Malta, accumulating arms and stores, which he conveyed to Sicily, alter having worked with Crispi to prepare the Sicilian revolution of 1860.

While Giuseppe Garibaldi was sailing from Genoa towards Marshia?

While on his way to Sicily in 1862, to induce Garibaldi to give up the Aspromonte enterprise, he was arrested at Naples by Lamarmora. In parliament he endeavoured to promote agreement between the chiefs of the Left, and from 1878 onwards worked to secure the return of Crispi to power, but died in March 1885, two years before the realization of his object.