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Diego
Pignatelli Aragona Cortes
Diego
Pignatelli Aragona Cortes (1774-1818).
He participated actively to the 1799 Neapolitan Revolution and was elected
representative in the parliament of the Neapolitan Republic. Upon the arrival
of Cardinal Ruffo he was sentenced to death , later the Pope granted clemency.He
was exiled in Milan , he joined in 1806 Giuseppe Bonaparte and was sent Ambassador
in France to praise Napoleon for His victories.
He was then appointed Chamberlain of Giuseppe Bonaparte King of Naples.