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to view personally the inhumane conditions in which political prisoners were kept. When his efforts to have these prisoners released failed, he raised money to buy a ship and mounted an expedition to rescue the prisoners from the island fortress of Santo
Stefano in the Gulf of
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Panizzi, Dei processi e delle sentenze contra gli imputati di lesamaestĂ e di aderenza alle sette proscritte negli Stati di Modena. Notizie scritte da Antonio Panizzi pubblicate da***. Madrid, 1823.
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