My Ten Years' Imprisonment

Silvio Pellico (1789 – 1854) was a famous Italian writer and activist for the unification of Italy. He was a member of the Carbonari and was sentenced to death in 1822 for his activities and writing connected with their ideology – that of unifying Italy. He spent 10 years in prison after his sentence was commuted and this autobiographical account of that time is his best-known and most influential work.