Nicola Barbato

Nicola Barbato
Drawing of Nicola Barbato
Born(1856-10-05)5 October 1856
Piana dei Greci, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Died23 May 1923(1923-05-23) (aged 66)
Milan, Italy
NationalityItalian
Occupation(s)Medical doctor and politician
Known forProminent socialist leader of the Fasci Siciliani

Nicola Barbato (Piana dei Greci, October 5, 1856 – Milan, May 23, 1923) was a Sicilian medical doctor, socialist, and politician. He was one of the national leaders of the Fasci Siciliani dei Lavoratori (Sicilian Leagues) a popular movement of democratic and socialist inspiration in 1891–1894, and perhaps might have been the ablest among them according to the Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm.[1]

  1. ^ Hobsbawm, Primitive rebels, pp. 103-04