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About Fra Diavolo
Fra Diavolo is the popular name given to Michele Pezza, a guerrilla leader who resisted the French occupation of Naples, proving an "inspirational practitioner of popular insurrection". Pezza figures prominently in folk lore and fiction. He appears in several works of Alexandre Dumas, including The Last Cavalier: Being the Adventures of Count Sainte-hermine in the Age of Napoleon, not published in English until 2007 and in Washington Irving's short story "The Inn at Terracina". He received the nickname as a child after behaving naughtily while dressed as a monk for a procession.
Everything about Fra Diavolo →- Occupation
- military personnel, robber
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Naples
- Born
- April 7, 1771
- Died
- November 11, 1806