biography
pronunciation:
[turahtee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1857–1932)
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| biography:
| Italian politician, born in Canzo, Lombardy, N Italy. In 1891 he founded the review Critica Sociale, in which he expounded the principles of Italian socialism, and helped found the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) in 1892. A deputy in 1869, he was jailed in 1898 for his part in the Milanese rising of that year, but was pardoned in 1899. As a reformist, he urged the party to work with Giolitti, but the Libyan venture (1911–12) helped the left regain the majority. Initially he opposed Italian participation in World War 1 but became in favour in 1917. He left the PSI in 1922 to found the Partito Socialista Unitario. After the Matteotti murder, he was one of the Aventine secession's leaders. He escaped to France in 1926, where he continued his fight against Fascism. |
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