Michele Amari

Michele Amari
Michele Amari
Born	(1806-07-07)7 July 1806 Palermo
Died	16 July 1889(1889-07-16) (aged 83) Florence
Occupation(s)	civil servant (1820–42), professor (1859–66), minister of education (1862–64), senator (1861–89)
Notable work	History of the War of the Sicilian Vespers (1842)

Michele Benedetto Gaetano Amari (7 July 1806 in Palermo – 16 July 1889 in Florence) was a Sicilian patriot, liberal revolutionary and politician of aristocratic background, historian and orientalist. He rose to prominence as a champion of Sicilian independence from the Neapolitan Bourbon rule when he published his history of the War of the Sicilian Vespers in 1842. He was a minister in the Sicilian revolutionary government of 1848–9 and in Garibaldi's revolutionary cabinet in Sicily in 1860. Having embraced the cause of Italian unification, he was active in his later years as a senator of the Kingdom of Italy.