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{{Short description|Italian journalist, nationalist, pacifist}}
{{Infobox journalist
| name               = Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
| image              = Ernesto Teodoro Moneta.jpg
| birth_date         = {{Birth date|df=y|1833|9|20}}
| birth_place        = Milan, Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia
| death_date         = {{death date and age|df=y|1918|2|10|1833|9|20}}
| death_place        = Milan
| occupation         = journalist, nationalist, pacifist
| awards             = Nobel Peace Prize (1907)
}}
[[Image:Ernestomoneta milan.jpg|thumb|right|150px|The monument to Moneta in the Porta Venezia Gardens, in Milan. The carving reads: "Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, garibaldine, thinker, journalist, apostle of peace among free people"]]
'''Ernesto Teodoro Moneta''' (September 20, 1833 in Milan, Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia &ndash; February 10, 1918) was an Italian journalist, nationalist, revolutionary soldier and later a pacifist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. He adopted the motto ''In varietate unitas!'' which later inspired Motto of the European Union.

At age 15, Moneta participated in the "Five Days of Milan" (1848 uprising against Austrian rule). He later 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. 

Between 1867 and 1896 he was editor of the Milan democratic paper ''Il Secolo'', published by Edoardo Sonzogno. 

In 1890 he founded the Lombard  Association for Peace and Arbitration (Unione Lombarda per la Pace e l'Arbitrato), which called for disarmament and envisaged the creation of a League of Nations and [[Finance:Permanent Court of Arbitration|Permanent Court of Arbitration]]. He won (with [[Biography:Louis Renault (jurist)|Louis Renault]]) the Nobel Peace Prize in 1907.

==References==
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* {{Nobelprize}} including the Nobel Lecture, August 25, 1909 ''Peace and Law in the Italian Tradition''
* [http://www.nobel-winners.com/Peace/teodoro_moneta.html Ernesto Teodoro Moneta] Monograph at nobel-winners.com
* Nobel Lectures, Peace 1901-1925, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam.

==External links==
* [https://sites.google.com/site/societaperlapace/ Società per la pace e la giustizia internazionale. Founded by Ernesto Teodoro Moneta]

{{Nobel Peace Prize Laureates 1901-1925}}

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