Ernesto Teodoro Moneta (September 20, 1833 – February 10, 1918) was an
Italian journalist, nationalist, revolutionary soldier and later a pacifist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. He was a native of
Milan.
As a 15-year old boy, Moneta already participated in the "Five Days of Milan" (1848 uprising against Austrian rule). Afterwards he attended the military academy in Ivrea. In 1859 he joined Garibaldi's Expedition of the Thousand, and also fought in the ranks of the Italian Army against the Austrians in 1866.
Subsequently, he became an international peace activist, despite his strong Italian nationalism.
Between 1867 and 1896 he was editor of the Milan Democratic paper Il Secolo, belonging to the Sonzogno publishing house of Edoardo Sonzogno.
