Zachariah Carpi was an Italian-Jewish revolutionary, born at Revere in the second half of the 18th century. After the French Revolution

French Revolution

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 he appears to have engaged in plots against the Austrian government of Lombardy

Lombardy

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. On March 25, 1799, he and his son, Mordecai Moses Carpi, were imprisoned at Mantua

Mantua

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. When Napoleon reached that city in 1800, Carpi was sent to Venice

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, thence to Sebenico in Dalmatia

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, and through Carinthia

Duchy of Carinthia

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 and Croatia

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 to Peterwardein

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 in Hungary

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, where he was at last released by Napoleon's orders on April 3, 1801. He wrote a narrative of his imprisonment under the title Toledot Yitzchaq, which was edited by G. Jaré, and published at Cracow

Kraków

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 in 1892. Besides this, he wrote an account of his early life, under the title Megillat Yitzchaq, and a book for children entitled Dibre Yitzchaq. The last two works are no longer extant.

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