Bruno Misèfari Papers

Period 1918-1936 (-1961)
Total size   0.5 m.
Consultation Not restricted

Biography

Born in Palizzi Superiore, Italy 1892, died in Rome 1936; libertarian; deserted during the First World War and fled to Switzerland; married in Zurich Pia Recati-Zanolli who, after his death, took care of the publication of his writings; arrested on suspicion of involvement in a bomb attack; returned to Italy in 1919 when a general amnesty for deserters was announced; like all Italian revolutionaries in this period harassed by the police and the fascist groups.

Content

Part of his papers. Correspondence with Angelica Balabanoff 1932, 1947-1955, Giuseppe Berti 1934, 1937, Errico Malatesta 1914, 1921, Pia Misefari-Zanolli 1918-1919, 1931-1933, Antonietta Zanolli 1918; official documents on his expulsion from Switzerland in 1918 and his stay in that country in 1929, 1933 and 1934; personal documents; documents and press clippings on Angelica Balabanoff, Giovanna and Camillo Berneri, Mussolini, Sacco and Vanzetti, and others; notes concerning science and art; printed material.

Related material

Part of his papers at the Fondazione Lelio e Lisli Basso, Rome.