Italian Patriot. A native of Rome, Angelo Brunetti who would rise to become one of the most popular leaders of his city during the fight for the birth of the Second Roman Republic, was the son of a blacksmith. Employed as an attendant at the Pontifical Roman Seminary at the Apollinare in his teenage years, Brunetti soon became well known by the Romans for his cheerful and sociable character, as well as for his humanitarian activities during the cholera epidemic of 1837. An innkeeper by trade, popularly known as "Ciceruacchio", due to his robust figure, with the election of Cardinal Giovanni Maria Mastai Ferretti to the papacy as Pope Pius IX, he became a staunch supporter of the bishop of Rome upon noticing his liberal characteristics but eventually embraced Giuseppe Mazzini's cause for the Italian republic following the Pope's turnaround. After the fall of the Roman Republic, he intended to reach Venice but was caught by the Austrians and shot along with his children Lorenzo and Angelo and five other companions. Originally buried near the spot of the execution in bare earth, in 1866 their remains were located and re-buried at the local church near the baptistery. In 1879, following the wish of General Giuseppe Garibaldi himself, their remains were shifted one more to the Janiculum Ossuary Mausoleum, near to which a monument commemorating Angelo and Lorenzo was unveiled in 2011 on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Italy's unification.
Italian Patriot. A native of Rome, Angelo Brunetti who would rise to become one of the most popular leaders of his city during the fight for the birth of the Second Roman Republic, was the son of a blacksmith. Employed as an attendant at the Pontifical Roman Seminary at the Apollinare in his teenage years, Brunetti soon became well known by the Romans for his cheerful and sociable character, as well as for his humanitarian activities during the cholera epidemic of 1837. An innkeeper by trade, popularly known as "Ciceruacchio", due to his robust figure, with the election of Cardinal Giovanni Maria Mastai Ferretti to the papacy as Pope Pius IX, he became a staunch supporter of the bishop of Rome upon noticing his liberal characteristics but eventually embraced Giuseppe Mazzini's cause for the Italian republic following the Pope's turnaround. After the fall of the Roman Republic, he intended to reach Venice but was caught by the Austrians and shot along with his children Lorenzo and Angelo and five other companions. Originally buried near the spot of the execution in bare earth, in 1866 their remains were located and re-buried at the local church near the baptistery. In 1879, following the wish of General Giuseppe Garibaldi himself, their remains were shifted one more to the Janiculum Ossuary Mausoleum, near to which a monument commemorating Angelo and Lorenzo was unveiled in 2011 on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Italy's unification.
Bio by: Eman Bonnici
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