{{Short description|Italian writer}} {{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] --> | name = Francesco Lomonaco | honorific_suffix= | image = Lomonaco Pincio.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Bust of Francesco Lomonaco | pseudonym = |birth_name= | birth_date = {{Birth date|1772|11|22|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Montalbano Jonico]], Basilicata, Italy | death_date = {{death date and age|1810|9|1|1772|11|22|df=y}} | death_place = [[Pavia]], Lombardy, Italy | nationality = [[Italy|Italian]] | education = | alma_mater = [[University of Naples Federico II]] | occupation = {{hlist|Writer|Political Activist}} | period = [[Age of Enlightenment]] | genre = Essay | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | influences = | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | religion = | website = | signature = }} '''Francesco Lomonaco''' (22 November 1772 &ndash; 1 September 1810) was an Italian writer and revolutionary. Known as the "Italian Plutarch", he was a precursor to and a main proponent of the [[Italian unification]].<ref>{{cite book |last = De Francesco |first = Antonino |date = 2003 |title = La democrazia alla prova della spada: esperienza e memoria del 1799 in Europa |location = Milan |publisher = Guerini e Associati |page = 556 }}</ref>

== Biography == Born in [[Montalbano Jonico]], a small village in the [[province of Matera]], Francesco Lomonaco studied law at the [[University of Naples Federico II|University of Naples]]. When the Neapolitan revolution broke out in January 1799, Lomonaco strongly supported the new [[Parthenopean Republic|Republican]] government installed by the French. Following the reinstatement of the monarchy in June 1799, he took refuge in France.

In [[Paris]] he published the ''Rapporto al cittadino Carnot'' (1800), in which he outlined the major reasons for the failure of the Neapolitan Revolution. After the [[battle of Marengo]], Lomonaco moved to [[Milan]], where he befriended [[Ugo Foscolo]] and the young [[Alessandro Manzoni]]. His biographies of Italian military leaders led to a chair at the Scuola Militare in [[Pavia]] in 1805. He drowned himself when his ''Discorsi letterari e filosofici'' (1809) were confiscated by the French authorities as overly democratic.

== Selected works == * {{cite book |author = [[Gabriel Bonnot de Mably]] |translator = Francesco Lomonaco |date = 1799 |title = De' diritti e doveri del cittadino |location = Naples |publisher = Stamperia Patriotica }} * {{cite book |date = 1800 |title = Rapporto fatto da Francesco Lomonaco patriota napoletano al cittadino Carnot |location = Paris |publisher = }} * {{cite book |date = 1801 |title = Analisi della sensibilità e delle sue leggi e delle sue diverse modificazioni considerate relativamente alla morale ed alla politica |location = Milan |publisher = }} * {{cite book |date = 1802–1803 |title = Vite degli eccellenti italiani |others = 3 vols |location = Lugano |publisher = }} * {{cite book |date = 1804–1805 |title = Vite dei famosi capitani d'Italia |location = Milan |publisher = nella Stamperia Nuova }} * {{cite book |date = 1809 |title = Discorsi letterari e filosofici |location = Milan |publisher = }}

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==External links== {{commons}} * {{DBI |last = Pittella |first = Raffaele |title = LOMONACO, Francesco |url = https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/francesco-lomonaco_(Dizionario-Biografico) |volume = 65 |access-date = 30 May 2025 }}

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