Giovanni Passannante

Giovanni Passannante ( born February 9, 1849 in Salvia, Savoia di Lucania today, † February 4, 1910 in Montelupo Fiorentino ) was an Italian chef and anarchist.

Life

Giovanni Passannante his parents had to go early to hand and work. So he decided not to go to school regularly. To better find work, he moved several times and eventually worked as a cook in Potenza. Self-taught, he began to get excited about for political writings, such as Giuseppe Mazzini, and the Bible. In 1872 he moved to Salerno, where he joined a socialist party and continue to rave for anarchist ideas, which is not eased by his move to Naples.

He was sentenced to death because he had tried to kill the Italian King Umberto I. during a parade on November 17, 1878 in Naples.

The death sentence was commuted to a life sentence due to strong protests of the population. He was, as he should have tried to kill the king, declared insane and locked at the age of 30 years in a tower on the island of Elba. With a height of 160 cm, he had to live under inhuman conditions that actually drove him to madness in a two -square-meter and 140 cm high cell.

As a result of his mental illness occurring Giovanni Passannante was then placed in an insane asylum Montelupo Fiorentino at the Villa Medici L' Ambrogiana, where he died in 1910.

After his death

After his death, his head was cut off and taken to the Crime Museum to Rome and put on display. He is still there today.

It was also his birthplace of Salvia ( sage on German, the place was so named because here very much sage growing ) Savoia di Lucania renamed. The small town felt obliged to demonstrate the royal house, that she was inclined towards him.

2011 was directed by Sergio Colabona the film Passannante in which Fabio Troiano took over the role of the anarchists.