biography
pronunciation:
[malatesta]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1853–1932)
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| biography:
| Italian politician, born in Campania, S Italy. He studied medicine at Naples University but was expelled for encouraging student unrest. To demonstrate his beliefs, he gave away his personal wealth, and worked as an electrician in cities around Europe, at the same time organizing anarchist revolutionary groups. He joined the First International and worked together with Bakunin, and in 1891 founded the Federazione Anarchica Italiana (Italian Anarchistic Federation) with Francesco Saverio Merlino. He was opposed to both terrorism and reformist socialism. He participated in a number of risings and helped organize Ancona's ‘red week’ in 1914. He was imprisoned many times, sentenced to death on three occasions, and spent more than half his adult life in exile. He settled in London in 1900, advocating peaceful opposition to authority, and survived an attempt to deport him, in 1911, for alleged complicity with the Sidney St anarchists who had killed three policemen. He returned to Italy after an amnesty in 1919. |
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