Encyclopedia > Fra Diavolo

  Article Content

Fra Diavolo

Fra Diavolo (lit. Brother Devil; (1760-1806), born Michele Porsa, was a monk who left his monastery to join a gang of bandits, who participated in insurrectionary movements in Italy. Taken prisoner, he was hanged at Naples.

Auber's opera, Fra Diavolo, has no connection with him except for its name.



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Fibre optic gyroscope

... optic gyroscope wikipedia.org dumped 2003-03-17 with ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 21.3 ms