Abstract

The article focuses on the arrest and the trial of Giuseppe Farnara, an Italian anarchist in London, who was arrested for detention of explosive materials with another young Italian anarchist, Francesco Polti, in 1894. Farnara was a member of the large colony of Italian anarchists who found refuge in the United Kingdom escaping from the political repression which existed in all other European countries at the end of the nineteenth century. This case offers also a general view over a world of political immigrants, spies, poverty, and loyalty to the anarchist cause.