Leonida Bissolati [SEP] place of death
Leonida Bissolati
Leonida Bissolati (20 February 1857 in Cremona – 6 March 1920 in Rome) was a leading exponent of the Italian socialist movement at the turn of the nineteenth century.
Biography.
He was born from the liaison of Paolina Bergamaschi, a nurse, with Stefano Bissolati, a priest who left the Church in 1859, at age 37, and later became director of Cremona's city library and a noted scholar. At birth the child was named Leonida Bergamaschi; his name was changed at age 18,
1912, supporting the Italian invasion of Libya. He saw the new land as essential to relieving southern Italy of the rising cost of bread which had caused riots in the south, and advocated a "war of revolution". He joined the Italian Reform Socialist Party of Ivanoe Bonomi and Leonida Bissolati and supported Italy's participation in World War I on the side of the Triple Entente. He volunteered to fight at the front.
Death and legacy.
He died on July 19, 1920. The news of his death