Antinatale [AntiChristmas]. New York: Biblioteca "Novatore" No. 4, [1910].

Antinatale [AntiChristmas]. New York: Biblioteca "Novatore" No. 4, [1910].

Libero Tancredi was the journalistic pseudonym of Massimo Rocca (b. Torino 1884 - d. Salò 1973). This work dates from Rocca's youth, when he wrote for anarchist and syndicalist newspapers. However, by the beginning of 1920, he flirted with and then fully embraced fascism, writing for Il Popolo d'Italia when that newspaper was directed by Mussolini.

In 1923, he co-founded, with Giuseppe Bottai, an important fascist hierarch, the magazine Critica fascista.

The Collection contains another work by Tancredi: Dio e patria: nel pensiero dei rinnegati. New York: [n.p.], [c. 1924-1925]. There, the second essay recounts a religious debate between Tancredi and a priest in Providence, R.I., on December 11, 1910, likely the same year as the publication of this work.

This copy is notable because it bears a prized stamp for a collector interested in the first women's bookstore and publisher among the Italians: the stamp of "Libreria Editrice | ELVIRA CATELLO|1946 First Avenue, New York City…." See discussion of Elvira Catello's life and work in the description of Tomaso Concordia's Argomenti libertari.

The "Novatore" of the Biblioteca "Novatore" is presumably Renzo Novatore, author of works published posthumously in Verso la nulla creatore, q.v.

Libero Tancredi

Biblioteca "Novatore" No. 4

[1910]

19.5 x 11.25cm; 15 p.

Italian