Gabriele Pepe was an Italian soldier who fought in defence of the Neapolitan Republic in 1799. He was cousin to Guglielmo

Guglielmo Pepe

Guglielmo Pepe was an Italian general and patriot. He was brother to Florestano Pepe and cousin to Gabriele Pepe. He married to Marianne Coventry, a Scottish woman.-Biography:Pepe was born at Squillace in Calabria....

 and Florestano Pepe

Florestano Pepe

Florestano Pepe was an Italian patriot. He was brother to the more famous general Guglielmo Pepe and cousin to Gabriele Pepe....

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Born in Civitacampomarano

Civitacampomarano

Civitacampomarano is a comune in the Province of Campobasso in the Italian region Molise, located about 25 km north of Campobasso....

 (current Molise

Molise

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), he entered the Neapolitan Army at an early age. In the events of the Neapolitan Republic, he was captured by royalist

Royalist

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 troops led by Fabrizio Ruffo

Fabrizio Ruffo

Fabrizio Ruffo was an Italian cardinal and politician, who led the popular anti-republican Sanfedismo movement .-Biography:...

 and exiled to France

France

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. Here he fought for the Napoleonic armies both under Joseph Bonaparte

Joseph Bonaparte

Joseph-Napoléon Bonaparte was the elder brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, who made him King of Naples and Sicily , and later King of Spain...

 and Joachim Murat

Joachim Murat

Joachim-Napoléon Murat , Marshal of France and Grand Admiral or Admiral of France, 1st Prince Murat, was Grand Duke of Berg from 1806 to 1808 and then King of Naples from 1808 to 1815...

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He took part in the Neapolitan Revolution of 1820, and was again sent to exile, this time to Florence

Florence

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On February 19, 1826, he duelled with poet Alphonse de Lamartine

Alphonse de Lamartine

Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine was a French writer, poet and politician who was instrumental in the foundation of the Second Republic.-Career:...

, who had compared Italians with "human dust" in his poem "Le Dernier Chant du pélerinage d'Harold. He wounded the French poet in the right arm. In 1836 he returned to Naples where, although aged, he participated to the 1848 riots

Revolutions of 1848 in the Italian states

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