Ciro Menotti (January 22, 1798 - May 23, 1831) was an Italian patriot. Image File history File linksMetadata Anonimo_-_assalto_alla_casa_di_Ciro_Menotti_-_litografia_-_1887. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Anonimo_-_assalto_alla_casa_di_Ciro_Menotti_-_litografia_-_1887. ... January 22 is the 22nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1798 (MDCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ... is the 143rd day of the year (144th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Leopold I 1831 (MDCCCXXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...

Biography

Menotti was born in Migliarina, near Carpi, then part of the Duchy of Modena and Reggio. Carpi is a town of 64. ... Carpi may refer to: Carpi, a large town of Modena province in Italy the Carpi, an ancient Dacian tribe Jacopo Berengario da Carpi, an Italian anatomist Aldo Carpi, an Italian painter Carpi F.C. 1909, an Italian football (soccer) club Giovan Battista Carpi, an Italian comic artist. ... Civil ensign of the Duchy of Modena, 1830-1859. ...

A member of 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 egemony. The Carbonari (coalmen) were groups of secret revolutionary societies founded in early 19th century Italy, and instrumental in organising revolution in Italy in 1820, 1830–1831 and 1848. ... 1817 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1820 was a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...

Initially, duke Francis IV declared favourably towards Menotti's claim, probably pushed by the possibility to become the king of a future unified Northern Italy. Menotti organized a revolt in Modena for February 3, 1831, but, with a brusque volte-face, Francis deprived him of his support, and even, from his voluntary exile in Mantua, called the help of Austria and its allies. Francis IV Joseph Karl Ambrose Stanislaus (Italian: Francesco IV dAbsburgo-Este) (6 October 1779 - 21 January 1846) was Duke of Modena, Reggio, and Mirandola (from 1815), Duke of Massa and Prince of Carrara (from 1829), Archduke of Austria-Este, Royal Prince of Hungary and Bohemia, Knight of the Order... is the 34th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Leopold I 1831 (MDCCCXXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Mantua (in Italian Mantova, in the local dialect of Emiliano-Romagnolo language Mantua) is an important city in Lombardy, Italy and capital of the province with the same name. ...

Menotti was arrested and, after a summary process, condemned to death by hanging. The sentence was executed in the Citadel of Modena.

Afterwards Menotti become the idealized figure of partiotic martyr of the Italian Risorgimento. In 1880 the former Garibaldine officer Taddeo Grandi wrote a biography of him. A monument in Modena was built to Menotti in 1879, facing the former Grand Dukes palace. Italian unification, also known as Risorgimento (resurrection), was a historical process by which the Kingdom of Sardinia (ruled by the Savoy dynasty with Turin as its capital) gradually conquered the Italian peninsula, including the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, the Duchy of Modena, the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, the Duchy... Year 1880 (MDCCCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Garibaldi in 1866. ...

Giuseppe Garibaldi named one of his children Menotti after him.