GINO LUCETTI and his attempt to assassinate Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) 11 September 1926 by Riccardo Lucetti. ISBN 978-1-873976-56-2 (Prologue by Marco Rossi. Translated by Paul Sharkey.
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Carrara-born Gino Lucetti was an Italian anarchist who, on September 11 1926, unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini by throwing a bomb at his car in Rome’s Porta Pia Square. Arrested and tried in June 1927 Lucetti was sentenced to 30-years imprisonment, as was his fellow anti-fascist Vincenzo Baldazzi. Lucetti escaped in 1943, having spent 16 years in jail but, unfortunately, he was killed soon after during a German bombardment of Ischia.
CONTENTS: FOREWORD
Chapter 1 — SOME BACKGROUND ON THE ANARCHIST MOVEMENT IN CARRARA AND IN ITALY
The anarchist tradition in the Apuans
The anarchist movement nationally
Chapter 2 — THE SITUATION IN ITALY IN THE YEARS PRIOR TO THE ASSASSINATION BID
Chapter 3 — FUORUSCITISMO (EXILE LIFE)
The resurgent movement
The Scandal of the Garibaldian Legions and its Impact upon the Movement
The Movement in Crisis
Chapter 4 — GINO LUCETTI
Family background
Youth
Between Italy and France
The Years prior to Exile
Time in France and Return to Italy
Final return to Italy
In Italy
Lucetti’s movements over the months immediately prior to the assassination bid
Chapter 5 — THE TRADITION OF ASSASSINATIONS
Warning Signs
Violence and anarchist individualism
Outrages
Chapter 6 — THE ASSASSINATION BID
The act
The dynamics of the action
Investigating the accomplices
Inquiries into Lucetti’s contacts in Rome in the days immediately preceding the assassination bid
Chapter 7 — THE WORLD OF SPIES
The secret services and Public Security authorities during Fascism’s early years
The Natoli affair
Chapter 8 — REPERCUSSIONS OF THE ASSASSINATION BID
Chapter 9 — THE TRIAL
The Special Tribunal for Defence of the State
Lucetti’s defence counsel
The trial proceedings
Gino Lucetti
Leandro Sorio
Stefano Vatteroni
The verdict
Chapter 10 — IMPRISONMENT
Prisons
Prison life
Chapter 11 — RELEASE AND DEATH
Brief historical notes
Release from prison
His tragic end
The Lucetti name in the partisan struggle and civic life
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