Michele Angiolillo Lombardi

Michele Angiolillo Lombardi, Italian typographer, anarchist and proponent of 'propaganda by the deed', who shot and killed the infamous reactionary, Spanish Prime Minister Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, refuses the last sacraments and is garrotted in the prison yard. His execution, photographed by the press, is one of the first visual testimonies of this official brand of cruelty. "The that smile of his, full of light, life and dawn, expired there on the horrifying garrotte: GERMINAL!"