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May 18, 2024 · Ferdinand II (born January 12, 1810, Palermo [Italy]—died May 22, 1859, Caserta) was the king of the Two Sicilies from 1830. He was the son of the future king Francis I and the Spanish infanta María Isabel, a member of the branch of the house of Bourbon that had ruled Naples and Sicily from 1734.
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Aug 12, 2021 · Twenty-year-old Ferdinando II succeeded to the throne of the Two Sicilies upon the death of his father on November 8, 1830. He quickly got to work on reorganizing the government, focused on reducing public debt, and calming the country still affected by the turbulence following the Napoleonic Wars.
H.M. Ferdinand II, King of the Two Sicilies. P alermo, January 12th 1810 – Caserta, May 22nd 1859. He was the King from 1830 to 1859. Proud and determined, he succeeded in making the Kingdom autonomous economically and even from the biggest countries of those years.
Feb 15, 2012 · The revolt sent Ferdinand II into a panic and the limited reforms stopped. The Bourbons were inheritors of the Spanish vice-regal legacy that had neglected Sicily for centuries (and I speak as a lover of Sicily and a hispanophile).
In portraits, King Ferdinand II appears with soft, well-proportioned features, a small, sensual mouth, and pensive eyes. His literary descriptions are more complicated, although they agree in presenting him as good-looking, of medium height, and a good rider, devoted to games and to the hunt.
FERDINAND II. (1810-1859), king of the Two Sicilies, son of Francis I., was born at Palermo on the 12th of January 1810. In his early years he was credited with Liberal ideas and he was fairly popular, his free and easy manners having endeared him to the lazzaroni.
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This time Ferdinand chose to be officially called “King of the Two Sicilies” [During his rule in Palermo, the British present at the Court had fostered the autonomy of Sicily and forced him to grant the Constitution of 1812 and expel Maria Carolina from the island.
