Lodovico Nabruzzi was an Italian journalist and anarchist.
25 Facts About Lodovico Nabruzzi
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Lodovico Nabruzzi played a leading role in the dissensions between the revolutionary and evolutionary Italian socialists.
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Lodovico Nabruzzi spent several years in exile in Switzerland and France, often forced to undertake menial work and often in trouble with the authorities.
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Lodovico Nabruzzi was born in Ravenna on 27 June 1846, the son of Ettore Nabruzzi and Clotilde Rossi.
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Lodovico Nabruzzi took the name of his grandfather, who had been a municipal engineer and architect.
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Lodovico Nabruzzi's family included an 18th-century bishop of Molise, Antonio Lucci.
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Lodovico Nabruzzi graduated from the municipal high school in 1866, and at the end of that year passed the entrance exam to enroll in the University of Bologna to study jurisprudence.
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In 1867 Nabruzzi became secretary of the governing council of the Republican Democratic Union of Ravenna.
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At first Lodovico Nabruzzi shared this view with Celso Ceretti and Paride Suzzara Verdi.
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Towards the end of 1871 Lodovico Nabruzzi wrote to Friedrich Engels, saying conditions were ripe for revolution, particularly in the Romagna.
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In June 1872 Lodovico Nabruzzi went to Lucarno to meet Bakunin.
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Lodovico Nabruzzi participated in the IWA conference in Saint-Imier in which the anarchists broke away from Karl Marx and the General Council in London.
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Lodovico Nabruzzi moved to Bologna in the fall of 1872.
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In September and October 1873 Lodovico Nabruzzi took refuge in Locarno with his mother and a girl whom Bakunin called "very hard to classify".
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Lodovico Nabruzzi moved to Lugano where he found work as a writer in a commercial agency, then as editor of Il Repubblicano.
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Lodovico Nabruzzi was joined by his brother, who got a job at the Hotel du Parc, where Joseph Favre was the chef.
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In 1877 Lodovico Nabruzzi went to France, where he and Zanardelli found work in a dry cleaners.
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Lodovico Nabruzzi moved to Geneva, then returned secretly to Paris.
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Lodovico Nabruzzi was arrested again in Paris, and in April 1881 went to Geneva and then to Italy.
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In Ravenna Lodovico Nabruzzi worked as a writer and sometimes as a part-time municipal employee, and again moved in anarchist circles.
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Lodovico Nabruzzi continued to be active at meetings and conferences, distributing pamphlets and newspapers, and at times getting in trouble with the law.
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Lodovico Nabruzzi married Amalia Frignani, many years younger than him, and they had four children.
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The court recognized that Lodovico Nabruzzi was not just plagued by financial distress, but from a disease that made him impressionable and inclined to do strange things.
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Lodovico Nabruzzi was discharged at the end of 1912 and returned to Ravenna, where he took a room in an inn.
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Lodovico Nabruzzi died in Ravenna in the public hospital on 12 February 1916 aged 69.