Editing Errico Malatesta (section)

=== Early years ===
Errico Malatesta was born on 4 December 1853<ref>{{cite ODNB|author-last=Gibbard |author-first=Paul |date=2005 |title=Malatesta, Errico |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/58609 }}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |author-last1=Lotha |author-first1=Gloria |author-last2=Promeet |author-first2=Dutta |date=18 July 2020 |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Errico-Malatesta |title=Errico Malatesta |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica Online |access-date=15 September 2020 |archive-date=26 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026194809/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Errico-Malatesta |url-status=live }}</ref> to a family of middle-class landowners in Santa Maria Maggiore, at the time part of the city of [[Capua]] (currently an autonomous municipality renamed [[Santa Maria Capua Vetere]], in the province of Caserta), at the time part of the [[Kingdom of the Two Sicilies]]. More distantly, his ancestors ruled [[Rimini]] as the [[House of Malatesta]]. The first of a long series of arrests came at age fourteen, when he was apprehended for writing an "insolent and threatening" letter to King [[Victor Emmanuel II]].<ref>{{cite book |author-last=Guérin |author-first=Daniel |author-link=Daniel Guérin |title=No Gods, No Masters |volume=1–4 |publisher=AK Press |year=2005 |isbn=9781904859253 |page=349 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g4YncZ8MgRsC&pg=PA349 |access-date=18 March 2016 |archive-date=11 January 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140111115535/http://books.google.com/books?id=g4YncZ8MgRsC&pg=PA349 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author-last=Benewick |author-first=Robert |chapter=Errico Malatesta 1853–1932 |title=The Routledge Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Political Thinkers |publisher=Psychology Press |year=1998 |isbn=9780415096232 |page=202 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-jnaCUyzjMQC&pg=PA202 |access-date=18 March 2016 |archive-date=11 January 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140111143037/http://books.google.com/books?id=-jnaCUyzjMQC&pg=PA202 |url-status=live}}</ref>

In April 1877, Malatesta, [[Carlo Cafiero]], [[Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky]] and about thirty others started an [[Banda del Matese|insurrection in the province of Benevento]], taking the villages of [[Letino]] and [[Gallo Matese|Gallo]] without a struggle. The revolutionaries burnt tax registers and declared the end of the King's reign and were met with enthusiasm. After leaving Gallo, however, they were arrested by government troops and held for sixteen months before being acquitted. After [[Giovanni Passannante]]'s murder attempt on the king [[Umberto I]], the radicals were kept under constant surveillance by the police. Even though the anarchists claimed to have no connection to Passannante, Malatesta, being an advocate of social revolution, was included in this surveillance. After returning to [[Naples]], he was forced to leave Italy altogether in the fall of 1878 because of the intense surveillance, beginning his life in exile.<ref name=Joll174>{{cite book|author-last=Joll |author-first=James |author-link=James Joll |title=[[The Anarchists (book)|The Anarchists]] |location=Boston, MA |publisher=Little, Brown & Co. |date=1964 |pages=174}}</ref>