Massimo Bucciantini: Addio Lugano bella
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Addio Lugano bella

Stories of Rebels, Anarchists, and Lombrosians


ISBN: 9788806244323
publisher: Einaudi
year: 2020
pages: 310

 

Late nineteenth century, on the trail of a hymn to freedom, composed by Pietro Gori: lawyer, poet, “socially dangerous” anarchist, who finds himself living through one of the nation’s most troubled seasons. A time when Cesare Lombroso’s criminal anthropology – with the consent of psychiatrists, jurists and police officials – was tasked with building a systematic web of control for all kinds of deviance, including the political one.

A story that unravels between Pisa, Milan, Lugano, Livorno, Rosignano, Elba Island, and even America, on the trail of the song that will become the anthem of all libertarians.

 

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