BUONCONSIGLIO, GIOVANNI - Deposed Christ - Vicenza, Civic Museum.
blimi Maestri Perfetti », « Mondo »), which, sometimes directly, but more often by concealing themselves behind Masonic lodges or making use of Carbonari sales, sought to bring about a vast revolution of a republican character and with quasi-communist premises. This sectarian activity was directed essentially towards Italy, where it would soon come into competition with Giovine Italia; in France, on the other hand, B. worked essentially through the publication, issued in Brussels in 1828, of Conspiration pour l'Égalité dite de Babeuf (Italian trans., Turin 1946), which played no small part in the formation of the first revolutionary socialist groups.
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