A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists/Amari, Professor Michele

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Amari, Professor Michele, Italian historian and statesman. B. July 7, 1806. In 1830, while he was in the Civil Service, Amari translated Scott's Marmion, and in 1842 he published a warmly anti-clerical history of the Sicilian Vespers, for which he was compelled to fly to France. He returned to Sicily at the Revolution of 1848 and became Minister of Finance. He was compelled again to leave the country at the collapse of the Revolution, but he returned with Garibaldi in 1859, and was appointed professor of Arabic at Palermo. In 1862 he became Minister of Public Instruction and Senator. He was a consistent and powerful Rationalist. D. July 16, 1889.