Arcangelo Ghisleri (5 September 1855 – 19 August 1938) was an Italian geographer, writer, and Socialist politician. Ghisleri was born in the ''

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'' of Persico Dosimo (in today's province of Cremona). A well known

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by profession, he created numerous maps of Africa. As a journalist, he was part of a wave of philosophically positivist and politically progressive writers who carried the mantle of

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's republican nationalism in the late 19th century. From 1887 to 1890 he founded and edited the review 'Cuore e Critica' which, together with the journals ''La rivista repubblicana'' and ''L'educazione politica'', was important in defining the republican ideology of the times. Politically, Ghisleri was close to the revolutionary movements of his time: in 1895 he was one of the founders of the

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. His friend and fellow radical and Freemason

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took over the journal in 1891 and renamed it

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, moving it quickly into a

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direction. In 1867, Ghisleri founded the ''Società di Liberi Pensatori'' (Society of the Free Thinkers) in Cremona, on behalf of the Grand Master Giuseppe Garibaldi, together with Mauro Macchi and Ausonio Franchi. In 1879, he was a co-founder of the

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" Pontida" in Bergamo that he joyned until 1906 when he was initiated to the regular lodge " Carlo Cattaneo" in Milan., PhD dissertation. Ghisleri was not a systematic ideologist: a systematic version of his republican ideology is best exemplified in the work of

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. Ghisleri died in Bergamo in 1938.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ghisleri, Arcangelo 1855 births 1938 deaths Politicians from the Province of Cremona Italian Republican Party politicians Writers from the Province of Cremona Italian journalists Italian republicans Italian radicals Italian male journalists