Francesco Nullo
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Francesco Nullo
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1 March 1826 Bergamo, Austrian Empire |
| Died | 5 May 1863 (aged 37) Krzykawka, partitioned Poland |
| Movement | Il Risorgimento (Unification of Italy) |
Francesco Nullo (1 March 1826 – 5 May 1863) was an Italian patriot, military officer and merchant, and a close friend and confidant of Giuseppe Garibaldi. He supported independence movements in Italy and Poland. He was a participant in the Five Days of Milan and other events of the revolutions of 1848 in the Italian states, Sicilian Expedition of the Thousand in 1860 and the Polish January Uprising in 1863. His military career ended with him receiving the rank of general in Poland, shortly before his death in the Battle of Krzykawka.
Francesco Nullo was born on 1 March 1826 in Bergamo, as a son of Arcangelo and Angelina Magno, a wealthy family of linen traders. He had five younger brothers. He finished primary school there, with distinction, and continued his education in the Collegio Celana in Val San Martino (Caprino Bergamasco); a former ecclesiastic seminar, one of the best boarding schools in the region. In 1840 he returned to work in his family's textile factory, but left soon afterward to study in Milan; there he became involved in the revolutionary movement for Italian unification.
During the revolutions of 1848, along with his two brothers he took part in fighting during the Five Days of Milan. In 1849 he fought near Rome, and retreated together with Giuseppe Garibaldi to San Marino. In 1850 he returned to Bergamo, where he resumed his life as a textile merchant for the next decade.
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