thumb|Federico Confalonieri
Count Federico Confalonieri (1785 – 10 December 1846) was an Italian revolutionist.
Biography
Confalonieri was born at Milan, descended from a noble Lombard family.
In 1806 he married Teresa Casati. During the Napoleonic period Confalonieri was among the opponents of the French régime, and was regarded as one of the leaders of the Italian national party (Italiani puri). At the time of the Milan riots of 1814, when the minister Giuseppe Prina was assassinated, Confalonieri was accused of complicity in the deed. After the fall of Napoleon he went to Paris with the other Lombard delegates to plead his country's cause, advocating the formation of a separate Lombard state under an independent prince. But he received no encouragement, for Lombardy was destined for Austria, and Lord Castlereagh consoled him by saying that "the Austrian government was the most beneficent in the world." Confalonieri went on to London, in the hope of winning the favour of the British government, but failed in his object. He then joined the freemasons, which was arranged by Timothy Yeats Brown in September 1818, and some of the various other secret societies with which all Europe was swarming, being initiated by Philippe Buonarroti (1761–1837), an old Tuscan Jacobin living in Paris. On returning to Milan, where he found the Austrians in possession, he at first devoted himself to promoting the material progress of his country, but he was ever watching for an opportunity to liberate it from the foreigner.