Poerio, : Carlo (1803-67), younger of two Italian brothers distinguished for their services to Liberalism in the Italian Risorgimento. Poerio was active in the revolution of 1848. In 1851 he was sentenced with his fellow Liberals to 24 years in irons. The case became notorious throughout Europe, but Poerio was not released until 1859.
... "like the giants from the blood of Raktabij", men of redoubled or quadrupled strength: It was the exiled of Italy, it was the men who languished in Austrian and Bourbon dungeons, it was Poerio and Silvio Pellico and their fellow sufferers whose collected strength reincarnated in Mazzini and Garibaldi and Cavour to free their country. When John Morley, as Secretary of State, tried ...
... strength add the strength, doubled and quadrupled by death or persecution, of the martyrs for the cause. It was the exiled of Italy, it was the men who languished in Austrian and Bourbon dungeons, it was Poerio and Silvio Pellico and their fellow-sufferers whose collected strength reincarnated in Mazzini and Garibaldi and Cavour to free their country. Let there be no fainting of heart and no depression ...
... faces and communion with Indian hearts. But what then? It is but one suffering the more, and the deeper the suffering the greater the glory, the more celestial the reward. We cannot suffer more than Poerio in his Neapolitan dungeon or Silvio Pellico in his Austrian fortress or Mazzini in his lifelong exile. It is with the lifeblood of a nation's best and the unshed tears that well up from the hearts ...
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