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His memory remained imperishable in the minds of cultural circles who remember him as a great scholar passionate about culture, with a "splendid intellectual life". Giuseppe and Francesco Girolamo were born from the marriage between Pietro Lanza and Eleonora Spinelli. The first, tenth Prince of Trabia, died prematurely in 1868; the second, first Prince of Scalea for the Lanza family, was a proud supporter of the fight against the Bourbons, going into exile together with his father in the city of Paris. Francesco returned to Sicily only in 1860 following the expedition of the Thousand. Having landed in Trappeto with the Medici column, he was a red shirt among Giuseppe Garibaldi's men, actively participating in the Battle of Milazzo and the Battle of Volturno. After the unification of Italy, awarded the silver medal for military valor, he was Italian ambassador to London in 1862 and, in the same year, he was elected deputy of the Italian Parliament, a position he held until 1870. He died in 1919 in Palermo.