 When he left for Italy in August, Mazzini wrote to Maurizio Quadrio, one of his key supporters, that Bakunin was a good and dependable person.However, with the news of the defeat at Aspromonte, Bakunin paused in Paris where he was briefly involved with Ludwik Mierosławski.However, Bakunin rejected Mieroslawski's chauvinism and refusal to grant any concessions to the peasants.