Attorno ad una vita [About a Life]. Newark: Biblioteca de l'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1940.
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Born in 1855 or, according to Damiani, 1858 in Cosenza (Calabria), Converti died in Tunisiain 1939. He studied medicine and after a long spell in Tunis, the city he was to choose as principal residence, he returned to Italy for the first time in years and finished his medical degree.
Converti was attracted to the ideas of libertarian socialism, which was widely known in Naples thanks to the influence of Bakunin, who had lived there. He joined the Internationale, quickly becoming the most active member of the Neapolitan group, and carried on intense propaganda activity both with contributions to the existing press with the creation of new bulletins.
In May 1885, Converti published an anarchist communist newspaper, Il Piccone, in brochure format. His forced departure to France left the Neapolitan anarchist moving in difficulty. With the help of some French and Italian anarchist friends, he founded the Internationale Anarchiste. He became a doctor to the indigent in Tunis, which was filled with Italian refugees from political persecution.
In 1896 he started the theoretical magazine La Protesta Umana, whose contributors included Luigi Fabbri and Amilcare Cipriani. He continued to work on the night shift as a doctor at the Italian colonial Hospital G. Garibaldi, which he had also helped to found. He maintained constant links with Camillo Berneri and others in the anarchist community. When he died in September 1939, the entire antifascist community of Tunis turned out to salute him.
I find no evidence that Converti ever came to the U.S.
The publisher, the Biblioteca de l'Adunata dei Refrattari, is one of the best represented publishers in the collection - about 16 works.
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