Antonio Ranieri

Antonio Ranieri was an italian patriot and writer.
For many years he lived in poverty traveling in numerous foreign countries to escape borbonic police due to his revolutionaries ideas. When he returned to Italy he lived in Firenze in a turbulent dandy lifestyle; here he became friend with poet Giacomo Leopardi. Returned in Napoli, he took care of Leopardi in his family's house until his death in 1837.
He payed for a monument to his memory and published his works and a biography.

In 1839, he published the novel Ginevra o l'orfanella della Nunziata after visiting an orphanage in Naples and got shocked by what he saw. In this novel he revelead the terrible conditions and the abuses on children in the orphanage and this caused police to arrest hi

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