ARMELLINI, CARLO

ARMELLINI, CARLO. - Lawyer, triumvir of the Roman Republic, b. in Rome in 1777, d. at Saint-Josse-ten-Noode (Belgium) in 1863. During the Jacobin invasion of Rome (1798), A., then a student at the Collegio Romano, celebrated republican ideals in a Latin poem. Upon the Pope’s return, he extolled Pius VII and Leo XII in Italian verse. Highly proficient in legal studies, he joined the consistorial advocates. With the accession of Pius IX, he followed the Pontiff in his liberal policy and became a member of the Council of Deputies. When the Pope fled, he assumed the ministry of the interior and represented Rome in the Constituent Assembly. After the Republic had been proclaimed, he was triumvir with Mazzini and Saffi and devoted himself to directing legislative work. Following the fall of the republic, he went into exile in Belgium. Of his sons, Torquato entered the Society of Jesus, while Augusto, an active anticlerical, was mayor of Rome (1875); later afflicted by a long illness, he returned to the faith and died an edifying death (1912).

Egilberto Martire