Filippo Buonarroti

Born

11 November 1761

Died

17 September 1837

A Tuscan patrician and lawyer of the Florentine Buonarroti family, he published the first Italian-language newspaper to support the Revolution and was expelled from Corsica for it in 1791. Granted French citizenship by the Convention in 1793, he governed the conquered territory around Oneglia as national commissioner, applying the maximum, taxing the rich and founding free schools. Arrested after Thermidor, he met Babeuf in prison and joined the secret directory of the Conspiracy of the Equals; sentenced to deportation at Vendôme in 1797, he spent the next thirty years in detention, under surveillance or in exile. His account of the conspiracy, published at Brussels in 1828, transmitted its programme to the revolutionary movements of the nineteenth century. He died in Paris in 1837.

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