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Filippo Buonarroti

Filippo Buonarroti
Filippo Buonarroti

A distant cousin of Michelangelo, Filippo Buonarroti (Pisa, 1761–Paris, 1837) was an ideologue and theorist of the revolution. In the winter of 1792, when the French ships landed in Carloforte, Buonarroti, together with the population, participated in January 1793 in the raising of the Tree of Liberty, to the declaration of “San Pietro, Island of Liberty”, the first republic of the modern age in Italy, and in the drafting of the text of the Constitution, which he would illustrate in Paris in April, affirming the will of the people of Carloforte to belong to the French Republic.
He owes his tribute to the history of the French in Liguria during 1794 when he was, for eleven months, National Agent and Proconsul at the Commissioner’s Office in Oneglia. In that period his vibrant Jacobin activity saw him as a protagonist in the organization of the occupation government of the territories on the model of the French administration.
In his brief passage, however, a bitter conflict dragged on with the marchese Del Carretto of Balestrino in the attempt to expropriate his feudal rights in favour of the inhabitants of the town.
After the restoration of the influential marchese, Buonarroti was devestated by the affair. He went from being the accuser to the accused, being arrested on 19 February 1795 and then condemned, first to prison and then to transportation for life, a sentence carried out in Cherbourg, Sospello, Geneva, Brussels and Paris, where he died in 1837.