Giovanni Prati was an Italian

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 poet born in what then was part of the Austrian Empire and educated in law at Padua

Padua

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. Adopting a literary career, he was inspired by anti-Austria

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n feeling and devotion to the royal house of Savoy

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, and in early life his combination of a sympathy for national independence with monarchical sentiments brought him into trouble in both quarters, to the point that Guerrazzi

Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi

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 expelled him from Tuscany

Tuscany

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 in 1849 for his praise of Carlo Alberto.