Lorenzo Panepinto (4 January 1865-16 May 1911) was an Italian socialist activist and leader of the Fasci Siciliani movement.
Biography[]
Lorenzo Panepinto was born in Santo Stefano Quisquina, Sicily in 1865, and he worked as a primary school teacher and painter before being elected a city councillor in 1889. He briefly moved to Naples following a conservative victory in the local elections, only to return to Sicily to organize the Fasci Siciliani in his hometown; he joined the Italian Socialist Party in 1894. He visited the United States for eight months in 1907, organizing Italian, Spanish, and Cuban emigrant workers in Tampa, Florida. In 1911, he was assassinated by the Mafia while back in his hometown.