1. Leda Bruna Rafanelli was an Italian publisher, anarchist, and prolific author.
14 Facts About Leda Rafanelli
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Leda Bruna Rafanelli was born on July 4,1880, in Pistoia, Italy.
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Leda Rafanelli 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 Max Stirner and Friedrich Nietzsche.
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Leda Rafanelli dedicated L'ultimo martire del libero pensiero to Francisco Ferrer, a Catalan pedagogue whose execution had become a cause celebre and movement.
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Leda Rafanelli wrote Verso la Siberia: scene dalla rivoluzione russa during Italian protests against Nicholas II under a pseudonym, Bazaroff, taken from Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons.
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Leda Rafanelli's press published her brother's Marinai italiani a Tripoli in 1913.
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The press's image was enhanced by association with the illustrator Carlo Carra, with whom Leda Rafanelli had a brief relationship.
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Leda Rafanelli had a friendship with Benito Mussolini prior to his rise as Italian dictator.
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Leda 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.
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Leda Rafanelli later published their correspondence in Una donna e Mussolini and privately admitted her error in judging his personality.
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Leda Rafanelli published two novels under pseudonyms: Incantamento as Sahra and L'oasi: romanzo arabo as Etienne Gamalier.
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Leda Rafanelli worked as a fortune teller, a teacher of Arabic, and editorial work.
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Leda Rafanelli continued to write for the anarchist periodical Umanita Nova.
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Leda Rafanelli moved to Genoa in the 1940s, where she died on September 13,1971.