Enrico Bignami
Enrico Bignami | |
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| Born | 3 December 1844 |
| Died | 13 October 1921 (aged 76) Lugano, Switzerland |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, Politician |
| Known for | La Plebe |
Enrico Bignami was an Italian merchant, and the editor of La Plebe, a socialist newspaper.
Enrico Bignami was born in
Until the early 1870s La Plebe took a mainstream democratic position.[3] However La Plebe was critical of the institutions ruling the new state of Italy, which it saw as opposed to the ideals of the Risorgimento.[4] Bignami became enthusiastic about the 1871 Paris Commune, and from then the paper took a socialist line. Bignami moved to Milan in 1875, taking the paper with him.[2] He helped to found a number of worker's leagues in the years that followed, and in 1876 was one of the founders of the North Italy Federation of the International. He became a close friend of Osvaldo Gnocchi-Viani. At several times, particularly in 1879-80, he tried to organize a congress at which all left-wing democratic and socialist movements would be united, but he did not succeed.[2]
La Plebe played a central role in the formation of the Italian Workers Party (POI) in Milan in 1882.[3] La Plebe stopped publication in 1883.[2] In the late 1880s Bignami was a promoter of establishing the Milan Chamber of Labor. He founded the socialist publishing house Biblioteca socialista in 1895. In 1898 he moved to Lugano in Switzerland to avoid being arrested. From 1906 to 1918 he edited Coenobium (Common Life).[2]
Bignami died in
References
Citations
- ^ a b c Cortesi 1968.
- ^ a b c d e Clark 1995, p. 94.
- ^ a b Blunden 2013.
- ^ Corradi 2012, p. 16.
- ^ Santi Fedele, La Massoneria italiana tra Otto e Novecento, Foggia: Bastogi, 2011, p. 57.
- ^ "La Massoneria a Cremona" [The Freemasonry in Cremona] (in Italian). Archived from the original on April 18, 2016.
Sources
- Blunden, Andy (2013). "Letters from London". Retrieved 2013-09-03.
- Corradi, Morena (2012). "Staging the Uncanny: Phantasmagoria in Post-Unification Italy". Image & Narrative. 13 (1). Retrieved 2013-09-03.
- Cortesi, Luigi (1968). "BIGNAMI, Enrico". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. Vol. 10. Treccani. Retrieved 2013-09-03.
- Clark, Martin (December 1995). Biographical Dictionary of European Labor Leaders. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-26456-6. Retrieved 2013-09-03.
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