the LAST CARBONARO: Felix Orsini, Napoleon III, and Conspiracy That Shook World

THE LAST CARBONAROOne revolutionary. One emperor. One assassination attempt that changed history.Paris, 1858.Felix Orsini was a revolutionary who believed Italy needed to be free.His journey took him through political upheaval, imprisonment, daring escapes, exile, and secret revolutionary movements. Eventually, his fight brought him to Paris, and to the most powerful man in France: Napoleon III.Then came the conspiracy.Three bombs. One target. An emperor who survived.But Orsini's story is far bigger than one assassination attempt.It is a story of revolution, political conviction, secret societies, imprisonment, escape, and the struggle for Italian unification.What drove Orsini to risk everything?Why did he make Napoleon III his target?And what happened after the bombs exploded outside the Paris Opera?The Last Carbonaro follows Felix Orsini from his revolutionary youth through his years of imprisonment and exile, culminating in the conspiracy that would make him one of the most notorious figures of nineteenth-century Europe.Yet the story did not end with the assassination attempt, or even with Orsini's execution.His final words and his letter to Napoleon III would have consequences reaching far beyond the streets of Paris.If you are fascinated by Napoleon III, Italian history, political conspiracies, revolutionary movements, assassination plots, and forgotten chapters of European history, step into the world of Felix Orsini.Discover the man behind the conspiracy. Discover the story of The Last Carbonaro.