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Cornielo Barbieri published his life's work, "Solidarieta", at age 25 in the year 1863. Greatly affected by Giuseppe Garibaldi and the process and tribulations of Italian unification in his lifetime, Barbieri's work was a political thesis destined to change the history of Italy forever; but not in his lifetime. At the age of 27 Barbieri died of pnemonia, destitute and alone. Barbieri's ideas would not become widespread until the 1890's and even then propagated throughout maltreated Southern Italy (most of which was illiterate) through word of mouth and iconic graffiti developed by a small number of well educated reformist agitators. Even so, Solidarietism would not fully flourish until after the Great War; among veterans and radicals looking for any new direction to take; and by then had taken on a life of it's own beyond Cornielo's original work.
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