Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Radical Party (Partito Radicale, PR) was a radical political party in Italy. It was founded in 1877 by Agostino Bertani and Felice Cavallotti as a radical-liberal party of what was then considered the "far left", from the name of the parliamentary group the Radicals formed with Andrea Costa, the first Socialist elected to the Italian Parliament, in 1882. The Radicals supported complete separation of church and state, decentralization giving more powers to municipal governments, the United States of Europe according to Carlo Cattaneo''s beliefs, the progressive tax, an independent judiciary, free and compulsory education for children, universal suffrage for both men and women, women''s and workers'' rights, while opposed capital punishment, as well as any form of protectionism, nationalism, imperialism and colonialism.