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Amilcare Cipriani (October 18 1843 – March 2 1918) was an Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 anarchist
Anarchism

Anarchism is a political philosophy encompassing anarchist schools of thought which consider the state to be unnecessary, harmful, and/or undesirable....
 patriot.

Cipriani was born in Anzio
Anzio

Anzio is a city and comune on the coast of the Lazio region of Italy, about 57 km south of Rome. Well known for its seaside harbor setting, it is a fishing port popular with tourists and a departure point for ferries and hydroplanes to the Pontine Islands of Ponza, Palmarola and Ventotene....
 to a family originally from Rimini
Rimini

Rimini is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy and capital city of the Province of Rimini. It is located on the Adriatic Sea, near the coast between the rivers Marecchia and Ausa ....
. At the age of 16 he fought with Giuseppe Garibaldi
Giuseppe Garibaldi

Giuseppe Garibaldi was an Italians military and political figure. In his twenties, he joined the Carbonari Italian patriot revolutionaries, and had to flee Italy after a failed insurrection....
 alongside French troops in the Battle of Solferino
Battle of Solferino

The Battle of Solferino was fought on June 24, 1859 and resulted in the victory of the allied Second French Empire Army under Napoleon III of France and Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia Army under Victor Emmanuel II of Italy against the Austrian Empire Army under Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria ; it was the last major battle in world history w...
 in the Second Italian War of Independence
Second Italian War of Independence

The Second War of Italian Independence, Franco-Austrian War, or Austro-Sardinian War was fought by Napoleon III of France and the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia against the Austrian Empire in 1859....
, but against them at Aspromonte
Aspromonte

Aspromonte is a mountain massif in the province of Reggio Calabria . The name means "rough mountains", so named by the farmers who found its steep terrain and rocky soil difficult to cultivate....
 in 1862.

Cipriani founded the "Democratic Club", and along with Emanouil Dadaoglou
Emanouil Dadaoglou

Emanouil Dadaoglou was a notable Greece anarchist and a central figure in the Anarchism_in_Greece#1860-1875 of Greek Anarchism .Born in Smyrni, Dadaoglou was a trader....
 organized a group and took part in the revolution against King Otto of Greece
Otto of Greece

Otto of Bavaria was made the first modern king of First Kingdom of Greece in 1832 under the London Conference of 1832, whereby Greece became a new independent monarchy under the protection of the Great Powers ....
 in 1862.






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Amilcare Cipriani (October 18 1843 – March 2 1918) was an Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 anarchist
Anarchism

Anarchism is a political philosophy encompassing anarchist schools of thought which consider the state to be unnecessary, harmful, and/or undesirable....
 patriot.

Cipriani was born in Anzio
Anzio

Anzio is a city and comune on the coast of the Lazio region of Italy, about 57 km south of Rome. Well known for its seaside harbor setting, it is a fishing port popular with tourists and a departure point for ferries and hydroplanes to the Pontine Islands of Ponza, Palmarola and Ventotene....
 to a family originally from Rimini
Rimini

Rimini is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy and capital city of the Province of Rimini. It is located on the Adriatic Sea, near the coast between the rivers Marecchia and Ausa ....
. At the age of 16 he fought with Giuseppe Garibaldi
Giuseppe Garibaldi

Giuseppe Garibaldi was an Italians military and political figure. In his twenties, he joined the Carbonari Italian patriot revolutionaries, and had to flee Italy after a failed insurrection....
 alongside French troops in the Battle of Solferino
Battle of Solferino

The Battle of Solferino was fought on June 24, 1859 and resulted in the victory of the allied Second French Empire Army under Napoleon III of France and Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia Army under Victor Emmanuel II of Italy against the Austrian Empire Army under Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria ; it was the last major battle in world history w...
 in the Second Italian War of Independence
Second Italian War of Independence

The Second War of Italian Independence, Franco-Austrian War, or Austro-Sardinian War was fought by Napoleon III of France and the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia against the Austrian Empire in 1859....
, but against them at Aspromonte
Aspromonte

Aspromonte is a mountain massif in the province of Reggio Calabria . The name means "rough mountains", so named by the farmers who found its steep terrain and rocky soil difficult to cultivate....
 in 1862.

Cipriani founded the "Democratic Club", and along with Emanouil Dadaoglou
Emanouil Dadaoglou

Emanouil Dadaoglou was a notable Greece anarchist and a central figure in the Anarchism_in_Greece#1860-1875 of Greek Anarchism .Born in Smyrni, Dadaoglou was a trader....
 organized a group and took part in the revolution against King Otto of Greece
Otto of Greece

Otto of Bavaria was made the first modern king of First Kingdom of Greece in 1832 under the London Conference of 1832, whereby Greece became a new independent monarchy under the protection of the Great Powers ....
 in 1862. After joining the First International in 1867, Cipriani partook in the defence of the Paris Commune
Paris Commune

The Paris Commune was a government that briefly ruled Paris from March 28 to May 28, 1871. It existed before the split between Anarchism and Socialism, and is hailed by both as the first seizure of power by the working class....
 in 1871, for which he was condemned to death but instead was exiled to a penal colony
Penal colony

A penal colony is a Human settlement used to detain prisoners and generally use them for penal labour in an economically underdeveloped part of the state's territories, and on a far larger scale than a prison farm....
 in New Caledonia
New Caledonia

New Caledonia , is a "sui generis collectivity" of France located in the subregion of Melanesia in the Oceania. It comprises a main island , the Loyalty Islands, and several smaller islands....
 along with 7,000 others. In the amnesty
Amnesty

Amnesty is a legislative or executive act by which a state restores those who may have been guilty of an offense against it to the positions of innocent persons....
 that followed in 1880, Cipriani returned to France but was quickly expelled. Arrested in Italy in January 1881 for "conspiracies", he served seven years of his twenty year sentence before a popular campaign secured his release in 1888. At the Zurich congress of the Second International
Second International

The Second International was an organization of workers' movement formed in Paris on July 14, 1889. At the Paris meeting delegations from 20 countries participated....
 in 1893, Cipriani resigned his mandate in solidarity with Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg

Rosa Luxemburg was a Poland Germany Marxist theory, Socialism philosopher, and revolutionary for the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, the German Social Democratic Party of Germany, the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany and the Communist Party of Germany....
 and the anarchists who were excluded from the proceedings. In 1897, he went with Garibaldi's son to Greece to fight against the Turks and sustained wounds before being re-imprisoned in Italy for a further three years on July 30 1898.

He was elected deputy of the new Italian Chamber of Deputies
Italian Chamber of Deputies

The Italy Chamber of Deputies is the lower house of the Parliament of Italy. It has 630 seats, a majority of which is controlled presently by liberal-conservative party People of Freedom....
 (and subsequently re-elected eight times) but was unable to claim his seat because he refused to swear an oath of allegiance
Oath of allegiance

An oath of allegiance is an oath whereby a nationality or citizen acknowledges his/her duty of allegiance and swears loyalty to his/her monarch or country....
 to the King
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy

Victor Emmanuel III was a member of the House of Savoy and King of Italy Kingdom of Italy . In addition, he was the claimed Emperor of Ethiopia Ethiopia and King of Albania Albania ....
. In 1891, he was among the delegates to the conference which established the short-lived Socialist Revolutionary Anarchist Party
Socialist Revolutionary Anarchist Party

The Socialist Revolutionary Anarchist Party was a short-lived Italy political party.Founded in January 1891 at the Congress of Capolago, at which around 80 delegates from Italian socialist and anarchist groups participated....
.

He wrote for Le Plébéien and other anarchist periodicals
List of anarchist periodicals

The following is a chronological list of noteworthy anarchism periodicals....
. Cipriani died in a Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
 hospital at the age of 73. His writings were banned as subversive literature in Italy in 1911. The parents of fascist Italian dictator Benito Mussolini
Benito Mussolini

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini, Order of the Bath Sovereign Military Order of Malta Order of the Tower and Sword was an Italy politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism....
 gave him the middle name "Amilcare" in honour of Cipriani.

See also

  • Anarchism and nationalism