ANDREOLI, GIUSEPPE. - Priest and patriot, b. at S. Possidonio in Modena in 1791, d. at Rubiera on 17 Oct. 1822. A priest of the Oblates of Correggio, A. became a Carbonaro in 1820. Arrested in Feb. 1822, he was imprisoned in June of the same year in the fortress of Rubiera. Tried by an extraordinary standing tribunal instituted by Francesco IV, without regard for the right of the ecclesiastical forum, A. was condemned to death and, after being deposed from the clerical state, beheaded.
BIBL.: T. Fontana, La cattura di d. G. A. (26-27 Feb. 1822), in Rass. stor. del Risorg., 4 (1917), p. 707 sg.; id., Prigionia e morte di don A. (17 Feb. - 17 Oct. 1822), ibid., 5 (1918), p. 686 sg. Silvio Furlani