Carlo Bianco

Born in 1795 and known as Carlo Angelo Bianco, count of Saint-Jorioz, he was a Piedmontese patriot linked to the early Risorgimento. Sources describe him as a lieutenant in the Sardinian army who moved toward liberal and Carbonari politics, became close to Santorre di Santarosa, and helped organize the uprising of 1821.

After the failure of the revolt, he lived much of his remaining life in exile. He later worked in the orbit of Giuseppe Mazzini and was involved in further revolutionary activity, including the troubled events of 1834; in his last years he was forced to move again and died in Brussels in 1843.

He is remembered above all for his writings on insurrection, especially the treatise usually cited as Della guerra nazionale d'insurrezione per bande, applicata all'Italia. That work made him an important, if less widely known, theorist of irregular warfare and national liberation in nineteenth-century Italy.