. Chambers's encyclopedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people. s and autliors ofliberal views, and took an active part in a peiiodi-cal called Jl Conciliatore, whicli after a time wassuppressed on account of its liberal tone. Havingbecome connected with the secret society of theCarbonari, then the dread of the Italian govern-ment, P. was apprehended in 18J0, and sent to theprison of Sta ISlargherita, where his friend, the j)oetMaroncelli, was also confined. In the lie^iiining ofthe following year, he was carried to Venice, andin January lS:i2, to the prison on the isle of SanMi


. Chambers's encyclopedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people. s and autliors ofliberal views, and took an active part in a peiiodi-cal called Jl Conciliatore, whicli after a time wassuppressed on account of its liberal tone. Havingbecome connected with the secret society of theCarbonari, then the dread of the Italian govern-ment, P. was apprehended in 18J0, and sent to theprison of Sta ISlargherita, where his friend, the j)oetMaroncelli, was also confined. In the lie^iiining ofthe following year, he was carried to Venice, andin January lS:i2, to the prison on the isle of SanMichele, nea,t Venice; and Maroncelli and he wereat last condemned to death ; but the emperor com-muted the sentence to 20 years iinjirisonment forMaroncelli, and 15 years for Pellio. In March1822, they were both conveyed to the subterraneandungeons of the Spielberg. In August ), liow-ever, they were set at liberty. P. [mblished anaccount of his suflerings during his ten yearsimprisonment, under the title Le viie Prliioni(Paris, 1333), which has been translated into other. languages, and has made his name familiar where itwould not have been known on account of hispoetry. health, never roinist, was permanentlyinjured. The Marchioness of Bando received himinto her house at Turin as her secretary. P. sub-sequently published numerous tragedies and otherpoems, and a little catechism on the duties of death took place January 31, 1854. PELLITORY, or PELLITORY OF THE WALL(Pariitaria), a genus of plants of the natural orderUrtlcacccK, havingboth unisexualand hermaphro-dite flowers onthe same i)lant,the perianth ofboth kinds Common P.(P. officinalis),which grows onold walls andheaps of rubbishin Britain andmany parts ofEurope and Asia,is a herbace-ous perennial,with |n-ostratebranched stems,more rarely witherect stems, ovateleaves, and incon-spicuous sometimes attracts atten-tion from themanner in whichthe jiollen iscopiously dis-charged in hotsummer d


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