Augusto Masetti Explained

Augusto Masetti
Birth Date:	12 April 1888
Birth Place:	Sala Bolognese, Italy
Death Place:	Imola, Italy

Augusto Masetti (1888–1966) was an Italian anarchist known for an incident at the beginning of the Italo-Turkish War in which he shot his army commanding officer. A military court put him in an insane asylum, a move likely to have avoided creating a cause célèbre in Masetti during an unpopular war had he instead received the expected sentence of death by firing squad. Leftists waged a campaign to free Masetti.

Bibliography

• Book: Jensen . Richard Bach . The Battle Against Anarchist Terrorism: An International History, 1878–1934 . 2014 . 978-1-107-03405-1 . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge . mdy-all .
• Tarozzi . Fiorenza . MASETTI, Augusto . Dizionario biografico online degli anarchici italiani . 2004 . it . mdy-all . December 28, 2021 .

Further reading

• Book: De Marco . Laura . Il soldato che disse no alla guerra: storia dell'anarchico Augusto Masetti (1888–1966) . 2003 . Italian . 978-88-87583-22-9 . Spartaco . Santa Maria Capua Vetere . 55113520 . mdy-all .