
Giovanni Corrao (17 November 1822 – 3 August 1863) was an Italian general and patriot during the Italian Wars of Unification.
Biography[]
Giovanni Corrao was born in Palermo, Sicily, Two Sicilies in 1822, and he joined the Sicilian Revolution of 1848 before being imprisoned and exiled for his opposition to the Bourbons. In 1860, he returned to Sicily with Rosolino Pilo and led a local revolt in support of Giuseppe Garibaldi's Expedition of the Thousand. He joined the Royal Italian Army in 1862, only to abandon them to join Garibaldi at the Battle of Aspromonte. When he returned to Sicily, he was arrested several times for criminal actions and was murdered outside of Palermo in 1863.