Andrea Còsta

Andrea Costa (29 November 1851 – 19 January 1910)[1] was an Italian politician.[2] Initiated in September 25 1883 to the Masonic Lodge "Rienzi" in Rome, he progressively become 32nd degree Mason[3] and adjunctive Great Master of the Grande Oriente d'Italia.[4][5]

For the Italian footballer, see Andrea Costa (footballer).
Andrea Costa.

Costa was arrested in the failed Bakuninist 1874 Bologna insurrection as its head Italian organizer.[6] Costa left the country and was arrested in France. He continued to agitate in Romagna.[7] In a letter, "To My Friends and to My Adversaries", he defended himself against charges of reformism or anti-revolutionarism, but effectively broke from his anarchist past.[8] Russian socialist Anna Kulischov, whom Costa met in Paris in 1876 and who also was a former Bakuninist, is believed to have spurred his transition from anarchism to socialism.[9]

Costa founded the Partito socialista rivoluzionario di Romagna in 1881 with a small, regional following.[10] Costa became the first Italian socialists elected to parliament the next year. In 1892, he called the Genoa Congress, which established the Partito dei Lavoratori Italiani, which later renamed as the Italian Socialist Party.[9]

He was later a politician and mayor of Imola. He died there in 1910.[11]

His close friend and masonic brother Giovanni Pascoli wrote the funeral inscription dedicated to him,[4] whom he knew together with Alceste Faggioli when he was a university student.[12][13]

References
  1. "Andrea Costa". web.archive.org. 2006-05-09. Retrieved 2023-04-14.
  2. https://www.bfscollezionidigitali.org/entita/13938-costa-andrea?i=1
  3. G. Gamberini (Great Master of GOI) (1975). Mille volti di massoni. Rome: Erasmo. p. 175. LCCN 75535930. OCLC 3028931. Collana del Grande Oriente d'Italia , op. 3
  4. "The epitaph of Andrea Coosta (written by Giovanni Pascoli)". loggiagiordanobruno.com (in Italian). Retrieved Sep 23, 2018.
  5. V. Gnocchini (Sep 1, 2005). L'Italia dei Liberi Muratori. Milan, Rome: Mimesis-Erasmo. pp. 85–86. ISBN 9788884833624.
  6. Drake, Richard (2009). "Carlo Cafiero". Apostles and Agitators: Italy's Marxist Revolutionary Tradition. Harvard University Press. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-674-03432-7.
  7. https://books.google.com/books?id=TFPJAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA94
  8. https://books.google.com/books?id=vkAABAAAQBAJ&pg=PA175
  9. https://books.google.com/books?id=HnQaz46lb94C&pg=PA413
  10. https://books.google.com/books?id=cFwgXLau6mMC&pg=PA336
  11. https://books.google.com/books?id=HmNpl0wNa8AC&pg=PA222
  12. "Biography of Andrea Costa". cronologia.leonardo.it (in Italian). Archived from the original on September 28, 2017. Retrieved Sep 23, 2018.
  13. R. Boschetti. "Giovanni Pascoli: portrait of a young socialist poet". storiain.net (in Italian). Archived from the original on May 21, 2018. Retrieved Sep 23, 2018.

Bibliography
  • Pernicone, Nunzio (1993). Italian Anarchism, 1864–1892. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-05692-0. OCLC 27267053.

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