Leda Rafanelli

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Leda Rafanelli
Rafanelli, 1916
Born(1880-07-04)July 4, 1880
Pistoia, Italy
DiedSeptember 13, 1971(1971-09-13) (aged 91)
Genoa, Italy
Occupation(s)Publisher, author, fortune teller

Leda Bruna Rafanelli (1880–1971) was an Italian publisher, anarchist, and prolific author.

Early life

Leda Bruna Rafanelli was born on July 4, 1880, in

Arabic language and converting to Islam. Her commitments to anarchism and Islam were lifelong.[1]

Career

Rafanelli moved to Florence and married Luigi Polli, an anarchist bookseller whom she met in the Chamber of Labor, in May 1902. They founded Rafanelli Polli, a publisher of anti-military, anti-clerical, feminist pamphlets authored by Carlo Cafiero, Francesco Saverio Merlino, and Rafanelli herself. Rafanelli Polli also published the anarchist periodical La Blouse (1906–1910). She published her first novel (Sogno d'amore) in 1905. Her connection with Polli dissipated, though they remained friendly until his death in 1922. In the early 1900s, Rafanelli helped to co-found a committee to aid political victims from 1890s revolts and was targeted for distributing revolutionary and anti-military propaganda in Fusignano.[1]

She entered a relationship with Giuseppe Monanni, an Arezzo printer who published Vir: novissima rivista di alte questioni sociali on anarcho-futurist ideas influenced by the individualism of

Elisée Reclus. They paused publishing during World War I. One of their major works was the republication of Nietzsche's complete works in Italian, published between 1926 and 1927.[1]

Rafanelli had a friendship with Benito Mussolini prior to his rise as Italian dictator. Mussolini spoke at a 1913 commemoration of the Paris Commune as the director of Avanti!. Rafanelli wrote in praise of his oratory ability and stayed in touch via letters and visits for the next year, until his military interventionist stance became readily apparent. She later published their correspondence in Una donna e Mussolini (1946) and privately admitted her error in judging his personality.[1]

In the

fortune teller, a teacher of Arabic, and editorial work. Rafanelli continued to write for the anarchist periodical Umanità Nova. She moved to Genoa in the 1940s, where she died on September 13, 1971.[1]

Personal life

Rafanelli and Monanni had a son, Elio Marsillo (1910–1944), whom they called Aini (Arabic for "my eyes").[1]

Selected works

  • (in Italian) Una donna e Mussolini: la corrispondenza amorosa, 1975 Rizzoli.
  • (in Italian) Leda Rafanelli-Carlo Carrà: un romanzo: arte e politica di un incontro, 2005 Centro internazionale della grafica.
  • (in Italian) L'eroe della folla, 1925 Casa Editrice sociale.
  • (in Italian) La caserma... scuola della nazione.
  • (in Italian) Alle madri italiane, Nerbini.
  • (in Italian) Lavoratori, 1959.
  • (in Italian) Bozzetti sociali 1921 Casa editrice sociale.
  • (in Italian) La "castità" clericale Società Ed. Milanese.
  • (in Italian) Valida braccia: opuscolo di propaganda contro la costruzione di nuove carceri, 1907 Rafanelli-Polli.
  • (in Italian) Per l'idea nostra. Raccolta di articoli e bozzetti di propaganda Rafanelli-Polli.
  • (in Italian) Amando e combattendo. Racconto sociale, 1906 Serantoni.
  • (in Italian) Un'anarchica femminista e rivoluzionaria eccezionale, 1995 Archivio Famiglia Berneri.
  • (in Italian) Società presente e società avvenire, 1907 Libr. editrice Rafanelli-Polli.
  • (in Italian) La corona e la blouse: confronto sociale Biblioteca della rivista di letteratura operaia "La blouse".
  • (in Italian) Seme nuovo, 1912 Società editoriale milanese.
  • (in Italian) La bastarda del principe. Madre coronata e madre plebea, 1904 Nerbini.
  • (in Italian) Contro la scuola, 1907 Tip. Polli.
  • (in Italian) La scuola borghese Libreria editrice sociale.
  • (in Italian) Una tragedia Rafanelli-Polli.
  • (in Italian) Verso la Siberia.
  • (in Italian) Scene della rivoluzione russa.
  • (in Italian) Incantamento.
  • (in Italian) La signora mia nonna.
  • (in Italian) Donne e femmine.
  • (in Italian) L'oasi.
  • (in Italian) Nada.
  • (in Italian) Le memorie di una chiromante.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f De Longis, Rosanna (2016). "RAFANELLI, Leda Bruna". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian). Vol. 86. Treccani.

Bibliography

Further reading

  • (in Italian) Anarchia e romanziera: Leda Rafanelli, C. Cusin, 1995, Archivio Famiglia Camillo Berneri.
  • (in Italian) Leda Rafanelli - Carlo Carrà : un romanzo: arte e politica in un incontro, Alberto Ciampi, 2005 Centro Internazionale della Grafica.
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