Sante Geronimo Caserio

Sante Geronimo Caserio (September 8, 1873 - August 16, 1894) was an Italian anarchist who assassinated the president of the French Third Republic, Marie François Sadi Carnot, by stabbing.

Death

Caserio was executed by guillotine in Lyon at 5 am on August 16, 1894. In front of the guillotine, he shouted "Coraggio, compagni — evviva l' anarchia!" ("Courage, comrades — Long live anarchy!")

Related pages

List of anarchists

Bibliography

Maurizio Antonioli. Voce "Sante Caserio", in Autori Vari "Dizionario biografico degli anarchici italiani", ed. Pisa, BFS.
Rino Gualtieri. "Per quel sogno di un mondo nuovo", ed. Milan, Euzelia.
Errico Malatesta. "Al caffè", 1922

Other websites

Article about Caserio (in French)
Le Bal des Innocents: a film about Caserio Archived 2007-02-21 at the Wayback Machine (in French)
The songs about Sante Caserio Archived 2007-09-06 at the Wayback Machine (in Italian)

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