Pietro Gori

Pietro Gori ( born August 14, 1865 in Messina, † January 8, 1911 in Portoferraio ) was an Italian jurist, journalist, intellectuals and anarchist poet. He is known for his political activities, and as an author of some of the most famous songs of the anarchist movement, including Addio Lugano, Stornelli d' esilio and ballata per Sante Caserio.

Life

Gori studied from 1886 at the University of Pisa, where he became active in the anarchist movement soon. In 1887 he was arrested because he wrote about the Haymarket Riots in Chicago, protesting the presence of American ships in the port of Livorno. In 1889 he earned his law degree with a thesis on La miseria e il delitto ( poverty and crime ). In November of the same year he published under the pseudonym Rigo a leaflet called Pensieri ribelli ( rebellious thoughts), whereupon he was arrested for inciting class hatred.

On 13 May 1890 he was arrested again, this time for their involvement in organizing the May Day celebrations in Livorno. He was sentenced to one year in prison, however, came on November 10, 1890 and is released.

After prison, he moved to Milan, where he worked as a lawyer. In January 1891 he took part in the Congress of Capolago where the socialist party of the revolutionary anarchists ( Partito Socialista Anarchico Rivoluzionario ) was founded.

Gori was under special state supervision and was - especially before the May Day celebrations - imprisoned. In 1892 he wrote in prison the text to the song Inno del primo maggio (Hymn to May 1). In 1894 he emigrated to Lugano to escape a five-year prison sentence. In Lugano, he was - arrested in January in 1895 and expelled from the country - along with 17 other anarchists.

After traveling through Germany and Belgium, he arrived in London. He then traveled to New York and from there through the U.S. and Canada, where he gave many lectures. In the summer of 1896 he returned to London, where he attended as a representative of the American trade unions congress of the Second International.

After interventions in the Italian Parliament him to return from exile was allowed to Italy. He was again forced to flee Italy after he was sentenced to 12 years in prison by the repression that followed the unrest in Italy in 1898. About Marseille, he fled to Argentina, where he was active in the union movement, and taught at the University.

Thanks to an amnesty in 1902, he could return to Italy, where he founded the journal Il pensiero together with Luigi Fabbri. Aside from a trip to Egypt and Palestine, he spent the years until his death in Italy with political work, writing and defense of indicted political companions.

He died on January 8, 1911 in Portoferraio, where the town square is named after him.