Faccia a faccia col nemico: cronache giudiziarie dell'anarchismo militante [Face to Face with the Enemy: Judicial chronicles of militant anarchism]. East Boston: Edizione Del Gruppo Autonomo, 1914.
Title
Faccia a faccia col nemico: cronache giudiziarie dell'anarchismo militante [Face to Face with the Enemy: Judicial chronicles of militant anarchism]. East Boston: Edizione Del Gruppo Autonomo, 1914.
Description
This text is a lengthy work containing fifteen articles and essays from (and printed by the book publishing arm of) the anarchist Cronaca Sovversiva, led by author Luigi Galleani, describing various bombings by militant anarchists and their trials that inevitably followed, though prior to the more famous 1917–1918 bombings discussed in Angelo Faggi’s Uno storico processo di classe.
The best-known members of the militant Gruppo Autonomo, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, worshipped Galleani as “our master.” The possession of radical literature like this work, and the need to hide it from the authorities, were the likely cause of the arrest, a few years later, of Sacco and Vanzetti, on May 5, 1920. That occurred during the course of a roundup of Galleanisti, who were suspected of taking part in recent bombings. In the process, the two men were linked to the South Braintree robbery in the wake of a failed attempt to retrieve the car, under repair, they needed, probably in order to collect and hide radical literature like Faccia a faccia.
The best-known members of the militant Gruppo Autonomo, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, worshipped Galleani as “our master.” The possession of radical literature like this work, and the need to hide it from the authorities, were the likely cause of the arrest, a few years later, of Sacco and Vanzetti, on May 5, 1920. That occurred during the course of a roundup of Galleanisti, who were suspected of taking part in recent bombings. In the process, the two men were linked to the South Braintree robbery in the wake of a failed attempt to retrieve the car, under repair, they needed, probably in order to collect and hide radical literature like Faccia a faccia.
Creator
Luigi Mentana [Galleani]
Publisher
Edizione Del Gruppo Autonomo
Date
1914
Format
23 x 16.5cm; 504 p.
Language
Italian
Citation
Luigi Mentana [Galleani], “Faccia a faccia col nemico: cronache giudiziarie dell'anarchismo militante [Face to Face with the Enemy: Judicial chronicles of militant anarchism]. East Boston: Edizione Del Gruppo Autonomo, 1914.,” Italian-Language American Imprints: The Periconi Collection, accessed May 8, 2024, https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/185.
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