Giuseppe Fanelli (13 October 1827 - 5 January 1877) was a nineteenth century Italian revolutionary

Revolutionary

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 anarchist. Born in Naples

Naples

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, Italy

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, he visited Spain

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 in 1868 on a journey planned by anarchist Mikhail Bakunin

Mikhail Bakunin

Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin was a well-known Russian revolutionary and theorist of collectivist anarchism. He has also often been called the father of anarchist theory in general. Bakunin grew up near Moscow, where he moved to study philosophy and began to read the French Encyclopedists,...

 in order to recruit members for the First International. He died of tuberculosis in Naples in 1877.

He was active in the revolutionary enterprises in Lombardy

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 and Rome

Rome

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 in 1848 - 1849. He went on to fight alongside Garibaldi's Thousand in Sicily

Sicily

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. He also fought in the Polish

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 uprising

January Uprising

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 (1862-63). He was elected to Italian Parliament in November 1865 and fought against the Austria

Austria

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ns in 1866.
He met Bakunin at Ischia

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 in 1866. He arrived in Barcelona

Barcelona

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 in October 1868, introducing anarchism to Spain. In February 1869 he left for Barcelona

Barcelona

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 where he met up with Pellicer, Farga and others whom he helped to establish the IWMA’s Barcelona section as well as the Alliance

International Alliance of Socialist Democracy

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 section. This trip to Spain was costly to him in terms of financial costs as well as in terms of the problems arising from it (he was accused of exploiting Reclus’s republican friends to spread anarchism) by which he was much affected and in the end he distanced himself from militant Bakuninism after that. His last meeting with the Madrid

Madrid

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 Anarchists was on January 25, 1869.

Perceptions of others in regard to Fanelli

See also

• Anarchism in Spain
  Anarchism in Spain
  Anarchism has historically gained more support and influence in Spain than anywhere else, especially before Francisco Franco's victory in the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939....