This etext was prepared by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk, from the 1886 Cassell & Co. edition. MY TEN YEARS’ IMPRISONMENT by Silvio Pellico INTRODUCTION. Silvio Pellico was born at Saluzzo, in North Italy, in the year of the fall of the Bastille, 1789. His health as a child was feeble, his temper gentle, and he