{{Short description|Italian general (1778–1851)}} {{No footnotes|date=August 2023}} [[File:Florestano Pepe.jpg|thumb|Portrait of Pepe]]
[[Lieutenant general|Lieutenant-General]] '''Florestano Pepe''' (March 4, 1778 – April 3, 1851) was an Italian army officer. He was brother to the more famous general [[Guglielmo Pepe]] and cousin to [[Gabriele Pepe]].
Pepe was born in [[Squillace]] ([[Calabria]]) and entered the [[Two Sicilies]] army at young age. In 1799 he was amongst the defenders of the [[Neapolitan Republic (1799)|Neapolitan Republic]]. Defeated by the Bourbon troops under Cardinal [[Fabrizio Ruffo|Ruffo]], he was captured and exiled to [[France]].
He fought in numerous battles of the [[Napoleonic Wars]] under [[Joseph Bonaparte]] and [[Joachim Murat]]. He was chief of staff of the Neapolitan Division of Marshal [[Louis-Gabriel Suchet|Suchet]]'s army in the [[Peninsular War]] (1809), and took part in the [[Russian Campaign]] of 1812. He was also a protagonist of the Neapolitan Revolution of 1820; wounded, he retired to private life.
Florestano Pepe died in [[Naples]] in 1851.
==References== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20110728050244/http://www.squillace.org/florestano_pepe.htm Brief biography] {{in lang|it}} *Francesco Carrano, ''Vita del generale Florestano Pepe'', Genova, Stab. Ponthenier, 1851 {{in lang|it}} *Cesare Morisani, ''Ricordi biografici del generale Florestano Pepe'', Reggio di Calabria, F. Morello, 1892 {{in lang|it}} *Carlo Trionfi, ''Guglielmo e Florestano Pepe'', Milano, Oberdan Zucchi, 1942 {{in lang|it}}
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