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A leading political exile, later a highly controversial and scandal-weighted prime minister of united Italy over two periods, had a tempestuous Malta interlude. Relentless turmoil marked his entire public and private life. Some so-far unknown papers have emerged from three Maltese archives that throw fresh light on the Malta stay of this high-profile politician, who incidentally retained some fondness for the Maltese in spite of his misadventures on the island which he even referred to as scoglio ingrato. The Sicilian lawyer Francesco Crispi, or Crispi-Genova as he preferred to call himself in Malta, a towering giant in the convoluted Italian politics of the 19th century unification of the fragmented Italian peninsula, had to escape hurriedly from Italy after participating in the failed uprising in Milan in February 1853. On March 14, he somehow obtained an American passport valid for three months to travel to the US, and instead headed for Malta, then an unwelcoming haven for ....