- See also Filippo Buonarroti (1661–1733).
Philippe Buonarroti | |
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 Portrait of Filippo Buonarotti, 1830, Philippe-Auguste Jeanron | |
| Born | Filippo Giuseppe Maria Ludovico Buonarroti November 11, 1761 Pisa, Grand Duchy of Tuscany |
| Died | September 16, 1837 (aged 75) Paris, Kingdom of France |
| Occupation | Writer, philosopher, conspirator |
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Filippo Giuseppe Maria Ludovico Buonarroti, more usually referred to under the French version Philippe Buonarroti (11 November 1761 – 16 September 1837), was an Italian utopian socialist, writer, agitator, freemason, and conspirator; he was active in Corsica, France, and Geneva. His History of Babeuf’s Conspiracy of Equals (1828) became a quintessential text for revolutionaries, inspiring such socialists as Blanqui and Marx. He proposed a mutualist strategy that would revolutionize society by stages, starting from monarchy to liberalism, then to radicalism, and finally to communism.