Augusto Masetti

Augusto Masetti
Born	(1888-04-12)April 12, 1888 Sala Bolognese, Italy
Died	March 1966(1966-03-00) (aged 77) 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

• 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.

Further reading

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