 Their lives were also characterized by poverty and financial failure, and they were also the target of a conservative backlash against their movement and its ideals.Praga died an alcoholic aged thirty-five in 1875.Tarchetti died aged twenty-nine in 1869 of tuberculosis and typhoid fever while completing his novel "Fosca", practically destitute, in the house of his friend and follower Salvatore Farina.