C'è posta per voi, Mr. Brown! [There's Mail for You, Mr. Brown!]. Roma: Ed. Di Cultura Sociale, 1953.

C'è posta per voi, Mr. Brown! [There's Mail for You, Mr. Brown!]. Roma: Ed. Di Cultura Sociale, 1953.

Taddei published many works in the U.S. during the fascist era, when it would have been impossible to do so in Italy. Once the war was over, as is the case at the time of publication of this work, Taddei published in his native Italy.

Ezio Taddei (b. Livorno, 1895 - d. Rome, 1956) was involved in Italian politics at an early age: at thirteen he was arrested for involvement in a demonstration connected with a nurses’ strike in a Roman hospital.

When released from prison, he found the doors of his home closed to him, and began life as a vagabond. He was sentenced in February 1922, along with 32 other anarchists, by the Court of Assizzes in Genoa for conspiracy to destroy several private and public buildings.

Overall Taddei spent 18 years in Italian jails, first for his anti-bourgeois activities and later for his anti-fascist activities; these experiences animated and fueled much of his writing. War and imprisonment fostered his desire for social justice, reinforced by his reading, especially 19th-century Russian realist novels.

The Russian radical Mikhail Bakunin, who arrived in Italy in 1864 and believed in immediate armed revolution, attracted intellectuals like Taddei; he and anarchist Errico Malatesta recur as models for the fictional alter egos under which Taddei wrote.

Durante and Marazzi have extended biographical introductions and appraisals of Taddei's special place in Italian American letters, as well as excerpts from his works. 

Ezio Taddei

Ed. Di Cultura Sociale

1953

17.5 x 11.75cm; 230 p.

Italian