Nunzio Pernicone and Fraser M. Ottanelli
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780252041877
- eISBN:
- 9780252050565
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252041877.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
Chapter 5 describes the circumstances leading to and the nature of three attentats: Pietro Acciarito failed attempt against King Umberto I, Michele Angiolillo assassination of Spanish Prime Minister, ...
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Chapter 5 describes the circumstances leading to and the nature of three attentats: Pietro Acciarito failed attempt against King Umberto I, Michele Angiolillo assassination of Spanish Prime Minister, Antonio Cánovas del Castillo and Luigi Lucheni’s murder of Empress Elizabeth of Austria. The chapter explains that while Acciarito acted out of desperation shaped by personal economic destitution, Angiolillo’s attentat displayed the characteristics of the anarchist cosmopolitan giustiziere. Like Caserio before him, Angiolillo’s assassination of Cánovas del Castillo, was motivated as a show of solidarity with foreign comrades and as an act of retribution against an individual directly responsible for acts of violence against the innocent. If on a scale of political and moral consciousness Angiolillo’s attentat represents the highest level, the lowest place is occupied by Lucheni’s senseless assassination of Empress Elizabeth of Austria.Less
Chapter 5 describes the circumstances leading to and the nature of three attentats: Pietro Acciarito failed attempt against King Umberto I, Michele Angiolillo assassination of Spanish Prime Minister, Antonio Cánovas del Castillo and Luigi Lucheni’s murder of Empress Elizabeth of Austria. The chapter explains that while Acciarito acted out of desperation shaped by personal economic destitution, Angiolillo’s attentat displayed the characteristics of the anarchist cosmopolitan giustiziere. Like Caserio before him, Angiolillo’s assassination of Cánovas del Castillo, was motivated as a show of solidarity with foreign comrades and as an act of retribution against an individual directly responsible for acts of violence against the innocent. If on a scale of political and moral consciousness Angiolillo’s attentat represents the highest level, the lowest place is occupied by Lucheni’s senseless assassination of Empress Elizabeth of Austria.
Nunzio Pernicone and Fraser M. Ottanelli
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780252041877
- eISBN:
- 9780252050565
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252041877.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
Italian anarchists compiled a formidable record of political assassinations during the 1890s: President Marie François Sadi Carnot of France was killed by Santo Caserio in 1894; Prime Minister ...
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Italian anarchists compiled a formidable record of political assassinations during the 1890s: President Marie François Sadi Carnot of France was killed by Santo Caserio in 1894; Prime Minister Antonio Cánovas del Castillo of Spain by Michele Angiolillo in 1897; Empress Elizabeth of Austria by Luigi Luccheni in 1898; and King Umberto I of Italy by Gaetano Bresci in 1900. No less important were the unsuccessful assassination attempts committed during the same decade: Paolo Lega against Italian Prime Minister Francesco Crispi in 1894; and Pietro Acciarito against King Umberto in 1897. This book, through a specific focus on attentats along with attempted and successful acts of political assassination, provides a full-length study of the historical, economic, social, cultural and political conditions, the social conflicts and left-wing politics along with the transnational experiences in Italy, France, Spain, Switzerland and the United States that led to Italian anarchist violence at the end of the 19th century.Less
Italian anarchists compiled a formidable record of political assassinations during the 1890s: President Marie François Sadi Carnot of France was killed by Santo Caserio in 1894; Prime Minister Antonio Cánovas del Castillo of Spain by Michele Angiolillo in 1897; Empress Elizabeth of Austria by Luigi Luccheni in 1898; and King Umberto I of Italy by Gaetano Bresci in 1900. No less important were the unsuccessful assassination attempts committed during the same decade: Paolo Lega against Italian Prime Minister Francesco Crispi in 1894; and Pietro Acciarito against King Umberto in 1897. This book, through a specific focus on attentats along with attempted and successful acts of political assassination, provides a full-length study of the historical, economic, social, cultural and political conditions, the social conflicts and left-wing politics along with the transnational experiences in Italy, France, Spain, Switzerland and the United States that led to Italian anarchist violence at the end of the 19th century.
