# Francesco Lomonaco

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Francesco Lomonaco Bust of Francesco Lomonaco Born (1772-11-22)22 November 1772 Montalbano Jonico, Basilicata, Italy Died 1 September 1810(1810-09-01) (aged 37) Pavia, Lombardy, Italy Occupation Writer Political Activist Nationality Italian Alma mater University of Naples Federico II Period Age of Enlightenment Genre Essay

**Francesco Lomonaco** (22 November 1772 – 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](/source/Italian_unification).[1]

## Biography

Born in [Montalbano Jonico](/source/Montalbano_Jonico), a small village in the [province of Matera](/source/Province_of_Matera), Francesco Lomonaco studied law at the [University of Naples](/source/University_of_Naples_Federico_II). When the Neapolitan revolution broke out in January 1799, Lomonaco strongly supported the new [Republican](/source/Parthenopean_Republic) government installed by the French. Following the reinstatement of the monarchy in June 1799, he took refuge in France.

In [Paris](/source/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](/source/Battle_of_Marengo), Lomonaco moved to [Milan](/source/Milan), where he befriended [Ugo Foscolo](/source/Ugo_Foscolo) and the young [Alessandro Manzoni](/source/Alessandro_Manzoni). His biographies of Italian military leaders led to a chair at the Scuola Militare in [Pavia](/source/Pavia) in 1805. He drowned himself when his *Discorsi letterari e filosofici* (1809) were confiscated by the French authorities as overly democratic.

## Selected works

- [Gabriel Bonnot de Mably](/source/Gabriel_Bonnot_de_Mably) (1799). *De' diritti e doveri del cittadino*. Translated by Francesco Lomonaco. Naples: Stamperia Patriotica.

- *Rapporto fatto da Francesco Lomonaco patriota napoletano al cittadino Carnot*. Paris. 1800.

- *Analisi della sensibilità e delle sue leggi e delle sue diverse modificazioni considerate relativamente alla morale ed alla politica*. Milan. 1801.

- *Vite degli eccellenti italiani*. 3 vols. Lugano. 1802–1803.{{[cite book](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_book)}}: CS1 maint: others ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_others))

- *Vite dei famosi capitani d'Italia*. Milan: nella Stamperia Nuova. 1804–1805.

- *Discorsi letterari e filosofici*. Milan. 1809.

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** De Francesco, Antonino (2003). *La democrazia alla prova della spada: esperienza e memoria del 1799 in Europa*. Milan: Guerini e Associati. p. 556.

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- Pittella, Raffaele (2005). ["LOMONACO, Francesco"](https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/francesco-lomonaco_(Dizionario-Biografico)). *[Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani](/source/Dizionario_Biografico_degli_Italiani)* (in Italian). Vol. 65: Levis–Lorenzetti. Rome: [Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana](/source/Treccani). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-88-12-00032-6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-88-12-00032-6). Retrieved 30 May 2025.

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