Augusto Masetti (1888–1966[1]) 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.[2]
References
- ^ Tarozzi 2004.
- ^ Jensen 2014, p. 346.
Bibliography
- Jensen, Richard Bach (2014). The Battle Against Anarchist Terrorism: An International History, 1878–1934. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-03405-1.
- Tarozzi, Fiorenza (2004). "MASETTI, Augusto". Dizionario biografico online degli anarchici italiani (in Italian). Retrieved December 28, 2021.
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