Giuseppe Fanelli

Giuseppe Fanelli ( born October 13, 1827 in Naples, † January 5, 1877 in Naples) was a revolutionary anarchist of the 19th century.

Life

Fanelli was 1848/49 involved in revolutionary activities in Lombardy and in Rome. He fought with Garibaldi's " train of a Thousand" in Sicily. He also fought in the Polish January Uprising 1862-1863. He was in 1865 elected to the Italian Parliament in 1866 and fought against Austria.

He met Bakunin 1866 Ischia and traveled 1868 at whose suggestion to Spain to recruit members for the First International. He reached Barcelona in October 1868 and made the anarchism in Spain known. In February 1869 he again went into the city to meet up with Pellicer, Farga and other founding members of the Spanish section of the First International. The trip to Spain had cost him a lot of money, in addition, he was accused of having exploited by accepting funds Reclus ' Republican friends to spread anarchism. This hit him hard, and he distanced himself in the wake of Bakunin, of which he felt financially abandoned. Fanelli participated in the Anarchist International in Saint- Imier in 1872.

In 1877, he died of tuberculosis.