Amilcare Cipriani (18 October 1844-30 April 1918) was an Italian anarchist activist.
Biography[]
Amilcare Cipriani was born in Anzio, Lazio, Italy in 1844, and he served in the Piedmontese army at the Battle of Solferino in 1859 and followed Giuseppe Garibaldi in his Expedition of the Thousand against the Two Sicilies. He fled to Greece following the Battle of Aspromonte in 1862, and he took part in the revolution against King Otto I of Greece in 1862. He also fought in the Paris Commune Revolt of 1871, after which he was deported to a penal colony in New Caledonia. He was amnestied in 1880 and returned to Italy, where he was arrested for conspiracies and imprisoned until 1888. In 1893, he resigned from the Second International due to its expulsion of its anarchist deputies, and he served under Ricciotti Garibaldi during the Greco-Turkish War of 1897. He went on to serve in the Chamber of Deputies for eight terms, but he refused to swear allegiance to the King, resulting in him being unable to claim his seat. He died in Paris in 1918.