After o short survey of the political circumstances in Italy in the years 1815—1820 and the echo of the Carbonarist uprisings in Lombardy and Venetia during the same time, the author calls our attention to the writing of »Laibacher Zeitung« about the revolution in the »Kingdom of Two Sicilies«, the Carbonars, and the revolution in the kingdom of Sardinia in the early twenties of the nineteenth century; he also presents some of the Austrian authorities’ measures undertook in order to prevent expansion of the revolutionary unrest into Slovene countries. Following this is the description of the conditions in the Ljubljana castle prison and the treatment of the confined Italians. In the conclusion the author makes a statement, relying mostly on the findings of the Slovene literary history, of how the above mentioned Carbonarist movement and the episode with the confined Italians echoed, though in limited scope, also among the young Slovene intellectuals.