Ernesto Teodoro Moneta

Ernesto Teodoro Moneta (1833 to 1918) was an Italian journalist whose long editorship of a Milan newspaper made him one of the leading voices of the democratic press in the Italy of his day. Born on 20 September 1833, he took part as a boy of fifteen in the Five Days of Milan, the 1848 uprising against Austrian rule, and went on to military training at Ivrea. He later joined Garibaldi's Expedition of the Thousand in 1859 and fought in the Italian army against the Austrians in 1866. From 1867 to 1896 he edited Il Secolo, the democratic paper of Milan published by Edoardo Sonzogno. In his later career he turned from nationalism to pacifism, founded the Lombard Association for Peace and Arbitration in 1890, and in 1907 shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Louis Renault. He died on 10 February 1918. His motto, In varietate unitas, later inspired the motto of the European Union.