Giuseppe Fanelli

Giuseppe Fanelli (1827-1877) was a nineteenth century Italian revolutionary anarchist. Born in Naples, Italy, he visited Spain in 1868 on a journey planned by anarchist Mikhail Bakunin in order to recruit members for the First International. He died of tuberculosis in 1877.

He was active in the revolutionary enterprises in Lombardy and Rome in 1848 - 1849. He went on to fight alongside Garibaldi's Thousand in Sicily. He also fought in the Polish uprising (1862-63). He was elected to Italian Parliament in November 1865 and fought against the Austrians in 1866.He met Bakunin at Ischia in 1866. He arrived in Barcelona in October 1868, introducing anarchism to Spain. In February 1869 he left for Barcelona where he met up with Pellicer, Farga and others whom he helped to establish the IWMA’s Barcelona section as well as the Alliance 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 Anarchists was on January 25, 1869.

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*Anarchism in Spain