DALL' ONGARO, FRANCESCO (1808-1873), Italian writer, born in Friuli, was• educated for the priesthood, but aban doned his orders, and founded the Favilla at Trieste in the Liberal interest. In 1848 he enlisted under Garibaldi, and next year was a member of the assembly which proclaimed the republic in Rome, being given by Mazzini the direction of the Monitore uficiale. On the downfall of the republic he fled to Switzerland, then to Bel gium and later to France, taking a prominent part in revolutionary journalism. In 186o he returned to Italy, and was professor of dramatic literature at Florence, and then at Naples, where he died on Jan. 1o, 1873. His patriotic poems, Stornelli, composed in early life and published in 1863, had a great popular success; and he produced a number of plays, notably Fornaretto, Bianco Capello, Fasma and II Tesoro. His collected Fantasie drammaticlae e liriche were published in his lifetime.
See A. De Gubernatis, Francesco dall' Ongaro