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==Giuseppe (1836–1845)== Born December 20, 1778, on the nearby island of [[La Maddalena]], Giuseppe Celestino Bertoleoni Poli was a shepherd and the only inhabitant of the island before Charles Albert, the King of Sardinia's visit. He claimed to have impressed him as an educated man and to have been made king of the island shortly thereafter. He brought his two families from other islands to live with him. The Italian government tried to prosecute him for [[bigamy]], but failed because of his title.<ref>{{cite book |title=Itinéraire de l'île de Sardaigne pour faire suite au Voyage en cette contrée |publisher=Bocca |last=Ferrero della Marmora |first=Alberto |year=1860 |location=Turin |pages=[https://archive.org/details/itinrairedelile01dellgoog/page/n197 190]–193 |url=https://archive.org/details/itinrairedelile01dellgoog }}</ref><ref>[[David Wallechinsky|Wallechinsky, David]], and [[Amy Wallace]] (2005), ''The New Book of Lists'', pp 383-384, {{ISBN|1-84195-719-4}}</ref> Passed kingdom to son Paolo in 1845; died 1849.<ref>{{cite book |title=Voyages en Corse, à l'île d'Elbe et en Sardaigne |last=Valery |first=Antoine-Claude Pasquin |year=1837 |location=Paris |volume=2 |page=9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iC4MAAAAYAAJ }}</ref><ref>"The Island of Sardinia", ''Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine'', July 1849, p 43</ref><ref>Vuillier, Gaston (1896), ''The Forgotten Isles: Impressions of Travel in the Balearic Isles, Corsica and Sardinia'', trans. Frederic Breton, p 386</ref> Giuseppe's origins are a mystery. Because he claimed to be more highly educated than the average Sardinian shepherd, some have speculated on no ground that he was a fugitive member of the [[Carbonari]], an exiled French aristocrat, or even the [[Lost Dauphin]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Unknown Europe |last=Meissner |first=Hans Otto |author-link=Hans-Otto Meissner |others=trans. Florence and Isabel McHugh |year=1963 |publisher=Blackie & Sons |location=London and Glasgow |pages=15–16 }}</ref>
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