Alessandro Poerio

Descended from an old Calabrian family, he was the son of Baron Giuseppe Poerio (1775-1843) who was born in the town of Belcastro, now in the province of Catanzaro in southern Italy.

Alessandro fought as a volunteer under General Guglielmo Pepe against the Austrians in 1821, but when the latter reoccupied Naples and the king abolished the constitution, the family was again exiled and settled at Graz.

[2][4] As a poet, his work has been thought to reveal the idealism of a tender and delicate mind which was diligent in storing up sensations and images that for others would have been at most the transient impressions of a moment.

In Mestre, it is located adjacent to the spot where he was fatally wounded, and in Rome, where it forms part of the quarter which extends from the monuments erected on the heights of the Janiculum in commemoration of the Risorgimento to Monteverde Vecchio, it is one of numerous contiguous streets there which bear the name of patriotic figures of the era.

A ship of the Italian Navy named the Alessandro Poerio was built in Liguria, Italy, at the shipyards of the firm Gio.