Errico Malatesta was an Italian anarchist. He spent much of his life exiled from Italy and in total spent more than ten years in prison. Malatesta wrote and edited a number of radical newspapers and was also a friend of Mikhail Bakunin.
Errico Malatesta was born to a family of middleclass landowners in Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Italy onDecember 1853. The first of a long series of arrests came at age fourteen, when he was apprehended for writing an insolent and threatening letter to King Victor Emmanuel II.
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