Letino
Encyclopedia
Letino is a comune
and small village
in the province of Caserta
, in Campania
, southern Italy
.
It was one of the villages liberated by the Italian Libertarian Communist Insurrection of 1877 by Errico Malatesta
, Carlo Cafiero
, Pietro Cesare Ceccarelli, the Russian Stepniak
and 30 other comrades. Another village in the same province, Gallo Matese
, was also involved.
Comune
In Italy, the comune is the basic administrative division, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality.-Importance and function:...
and small village
Village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...
in the province of Caserta
Province of Caserta
The Province of Caserta is a province in the Campania region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Caserta. The former royal palace of Caserta is located near to the city.It has an area of 2,639 km², and a total population of 879,342...
, in Campania
Campania
Campania is a region in southern Italy. The region has a population of around 5.8 million people, making it the second-most-populous region of Italy; its total area of 13,590 km² makes it the most densely populated region in the country...
, southern Italy
Italy
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.
It was one of the villages liberated by the Italian Libertarian Communist Insurrection of 1877 by Errico Malatesta
Errico Malatesta
Errico Malatesta was an Italian anarcho-communist. He was an insurrectionary anarchist early in his life. He spent much of his life exiled from his homeland of Italy and in total spent more than ten years in prison. He wrote and edited a number of radical newspapers and was also a friend of...
, Carlo Cafiero
Carlo Cafiero
Carlo Cafiero was an Italian anarchist and champion of Mikhail Bakunin during the second half of the 19th century.-Early years:...
, Pietro Cesare Ceccarelli, the Russian Stepniak
Sergei Kravchinski
Sergey Mikhaylovich Stepnyak-Kravchinsky , known in the 19th century London revolutionary circles as Stepniak or Sergius Stepniak, was the Russian who killed the chief of that country's secret police with a dagger in the streets of St. Petersburg in 1878.-Early life:Stepniak was the son of an...
and 30 other comrades. Another village in the same province, Gallo Matese
Gallo Matese
Gallo Matese is a comune in the Province of Caserta in the Italian region Campania, located in a valley near the Matese Apennines chain and the boundary with Molise, about 70 km north of Naples and about 45 km north of Caserta. Its territory is also home of an artificial lake with the...
, was also involved.