Madri d'Italia! (per Augusto Masetti) [Italian Mothers (for Augusto Masetti)]. Lynn, MA: Tipografia della Cronaca Sovversiva, 1913.
Title
Madri d'Italia! (per Augusto Masetti) [Italian Mothers (for Augusto Masetti)]. Lynn, MA: Tipografia della Cronaca Sovversiva, 1913.
Description
A pamphlet of 24 pages, this work addresses Italian mothers about the injustices of a nation whose sons return from war, mutilated and undone. In particular it calls for the release of Augusto Masetti, a soldier who, during the Libyan war, is alleged to have assassinated a colonel and rallied the troops with the cry, “Down with the war! Long live anarchy!”
It was from his headquarters in Lynn, Massachusetts, and Barre, Vermont, in the second decade of the 20th century that Galleani led his overtly anti-imperialistic, revolutionary movement - and his journal, La Cronica Sovversiva - leading to his deportation in 1919.
The portrait of Masetti is by Carlo Abate, the long-time wood block printmaker of the Cronaca Sovversiva - note the signing, "CA," on Masetti's lapel. For a fine essay on Abate and his craft, see Andrew Hoyt, "The Inky Protest of an Anarchist Printmaker: Carlo Abate's Newspaper Illustrations in the Age of Mechanican Reproduction," in Protest on the Page: Essays on Print and the Culture of Dissent (U. of Wisconsin Press, 2015).
It was from his headquarters in Lynn, Massachusetts, and Barre, Vermont, in the second decade of the 20th century that Galleani led his overtly anti-imperialistic, revolutionary movement - and his journal, La Cronica Sovversiva - leading to his deportation in 1919.
The portrait of Masetti is by Carlo Abate, the long-time wood block printmaker of the Cronaca Sovversiva - note the signing, "CA," on Masetti's lapel. For a fine essay on Abate and his craft, see Andrew Hoyt, "The Inky Protest of an Anarchist Printmaker: Carlo Abate's Newspaper Illustrations in the Age of Mechanican Reproduction," in Protest on the Page: Essays on Print and the Culture of Dissent (U. of Wisconsin Press, 2015).
Creator
Luigi Mentana [Galleani]
Publisher
Tipografia della Cronaca Sovversiva
Date
1913
Format
20 x 11.5cm; 23 p.
Language
Italian
Citation
Luigi Mentana [Galleani], “Madri d'Italia! (per Augusto Masetti) [Italian Mothers (for Augusto Masetti)]. Lynn, MA: Tipografia della Cronaca Sovversiva, 1913.,” Italian-Language American Imprints: The Periconi Collection, accessed April 20, 2024, https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/184.
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