Giuseppe De Felice Giuffrida

In 1893 the upheaval of the Fasci turned into strikes which were violently repressed in January 1894, after [[Francesco Crispi]] had taken over government from [[Giovanni Giolitti]].Cartosio, ''Sicilian Radicals in Two Worlds'', [https://archive.org/details/inshadowofstatue0000unse_v8z4/page/120/mode/1up pp. 120–21] After the declaration of a state of siege on Sicily, De Felice Giuffrida left from Rome for Catania. "The Fasci are perfectly organized, and will resist the military. My place is there among my people. I do not fear the force of arms. … Of course Crispi will imprison me, but it will not help him. My arrest will only react against the Government," he declared. He was arrested after attending a meeting of the Revolutionary Committee on 4 January 1894. Although he initially wanted to resist the arrest, he was persuaded not to do so as resistance to arrest would have been punishable by death under the state of siege. His arrest was described in The New York Times as a "wise act", as De Felice's personal influence alone could have brought Catania to the verge of rebellion.[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1894/01/05/106092650.pdf Martial Law Proclaimed In Sicily; Stern Measures Resorted To to Quiet the Anti-Tax Troubles], The New York Times, 5 January 1894[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1894/01/06/104103998.pdf Trouble Has Been Long Brewing; Quantities of Arms and Ammunition in Hands of Revolutionists], The New York Times, 6 January 1894

In 1893 the upheaval of the Fasci turned into strikes which were violently repressed in January 1894, after [[Francesco Crispi]] had taken over government from [[Giovanni Giolitti]].Cartosio, ''Sicilian Radicals in Two Worlds'', [https://archive.org/details/inshadowofstatue0000unse_v8z4/page/120/mode/1up pp. 120–21] After the declaration of a state of siege on Sicily, De Felice Giuffrida left from Rome for Catania. "The Fasci are perfectly organized, and will resist the military. My place is there among my people. I do not fear the force of arms. … Of course Crispi will imprison me, but it will not help him. My arrest will only react against the Government," he declared. He was arrested after attending a meeting of the Revolutionary Committee on 4 January 1894. Although he initially wanted to resist the arrest, he was persuaded not to do so as resistance to arrest would have been punishable by death under the state of siege. His arrest was described in The New York Times as a "wise act", as De Felice's personal influence alone could have brought Catania to the verge of rebellion.[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1894/01/05/106092650.pdf Martial Law Proclaimed In Sicily; Stern Measures Resorted To to Quiet the Anti-Tax Troubles], The New York Times, 5 January 1894[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1894/01/06/104103998.pdf Trouble Has Been Long Brewing; Quantities of Arms and Ammunition in Hands of Revolutionists], The New York Times, 6 January 1894

On 30 May 1894 he was sentenced to 18 years of prison at a trial in Palermo against the leaders of the Fasci.[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1894/05/31/106867139.pdf Sicilian Rioters Sentenced], The New York Times, 31 May 1894{{in lang|it}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20120226141104/http://www.cittanuove-corleone.it/La_Sicilia,_La_Firma_dei_Patti_di_Corleone_14.09.2008.pdf La firma dei «Patti di Corleone»], La Sicilia, 14 September 2008 After two years, he was released in March 1896 as the result of a pardon recognizing the excessive brutality of the repression.Seton-Watson, ''Italy from liberalism to fascism'', [https://archive.org/details/italyfromliberal0000seto/page/185/mode/1up pp. 185–186][https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1896/03/14/105743818.pdf Pardon for Italian Socialists], The New York Times, 14 March 1896 After his release, De Felice, and other Fasci leaders [[Nicola Barbato]] and [[Rosario Garibaldi Bosco]] were met by a large crowd of supporters in Rome, who released the horses from their carriage and dragged them to the hotel, cheering for socialism and denouncing Crispi. De Felice said that after he had left the prison he was still more a revolutionary than when he entered it.[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1896/03/18/106100527.pdf Freed Italians Unrepentant; Many Socialists Greet Giuseppe de Felice, Bosco, and Barbato], The New York Times, 18 March 1896

On 30 May 1894, he was sentenced to 18 years of prison at a trial in Palermo against the leaders of the Fasci.[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1894/05/31/106867139.pdf Sicilian Rioters Sentenced], The New York Times, 31 May 1894{{in lang|it}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20120226141104/http://www.cittanuove-corleone.it/La_Sicilia,_La_Firma_dei_Patti_di_Corleone_14.09.2008.pdf La firma dei «Patti di Corleone»], La Sicilia, 14 September 2008 After two years, he was released in March 1896 as the result of a pardon recognizing the excessive brutality of the repression.Seton-Watson, ''Italy from liberalism to fascism'', [https://archive.org/details/italyfromliberal0000seto/page/185/mode/1up pp. 185–186][https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1896/03/14/105743818.pdf Pardon for Italian Socialists], The New York Times, 14 March 1896 After his release, De Felice, and other Fasci leaders [[Nicola Barbato]] and [[Rosario Garibaldi Bosco]] were met by a large crowd of supporters in Rome, who released the horses from their carriage and dragged them to the hotel, cheering for socialism and denouncing Crispi. De Felice said that after he had left the prison, he was still more of a revolutionary than when he entered it.[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1896/03/18/106100527.pdf Freed Italians Unrepentant; Many Socialists Greet Giuseppe de Felice, Bosco, and Barbato], The New York Times, 18 March 1896

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