Sanfedismo
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Sanfedismo was a popular anti-Jacobin movement, organized by Fabrizio Cardinal Ruffo, which mobilized peasants of the Kingdom of Naples against the pro-French Parthenopaean Republic in 1799, its aims culminating in the restoration of the Monarchy under Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies. Its full name was the Army of Holy Faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, and its members were called Sanfedisti.
Fabrizio Cardinal Ruffo leading the Sanfedisti in 1799, protected by Saint Anthony
Cardinal Fabrizio Ruffo.
Church of San Francesco da Paola, Naples, in a ponderous academic neoclassical style, completed in 1816 as Ferdinand's ex voto for his return.
Fabrizio Ruffo
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Fabrizio Dionigi Ruffo was an Italian cardinal and politician, who led the popular anti-Jacobin Sanfedismo movement.
Fabrizio Ruffo