Michele Amari
Italian patriot and arabist (1806-1889) · Italy · On the map · Politicians · Died at 83
Michele Benedetto Gaetano Amari was a Sicilian patriot, liberal revolutionary and politician of aristocratic background, historian and orientalist. He rose to prominence as a champion of Sicilian independence from the Neapolitan Bourbon rule when he published his history of the War of the Sicilian Vespers in 1842.
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![Villa Amari (.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}38°10′26″N 13°18′20″E / 38.17390504059211°N 13.305540638310259°E / 38.17390504059211; 13.305540638310259), a baroque residence in the Piana dei Colli (today Via Traversa 50/1 in the Cardillo district of Palermo), pictured in 1989. Built in 1720 by the first Count Amari of Sant'Adriano, it will have later belonged to the third Count, the historian's grandfather. The chapel of St Joseph on the ground floor served as the community church until the establishment of the Cardillo parish of St Silvia in 1958.[11] In the 1930s, the villa passed into the hands of the Taormina family[3] and by the 1990s was used in cosa nostra activities.[12]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Palermo%2C_Villa_Amari_di_S._Adriano.jpg/1280px-Palermo%2C_Villa_Amari_di_S._Adriano.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
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He was a minister in the Sicilian revolutionary government of 1848-9 and in Garibaldi's revolutionary cabinet in Sicily in 1860. Having embraced the cause of Italian unification, he helped prepare the annexation of Sicily by the Kingdom of Sardinia and was active in his later years as a senator of the Kingdom of Italy.
