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| Born | 8 April 1894 San Carlo, Ferrara, Italy |
| Died | 23 November 1987 (aged 93) Salt Lake City, Utah, US |
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| Partner | Florence Rossi |
Raffaele Schiavina (8 April 1894 – 23 November 1987) was an Italian anarchist newspaper editor and writer also known by the pseudonyms Max Sartin, and Bruno. From 1928 to 1970 he edited and wrote for the US-based Italian-language anarchist newspaper L’Adunata dei Refrattari.
Biography
Schiavina was born in the village of San Carlo in Ferrara, Italy to Angelo and Albina Lodi.[1][2] Having finished school, in 1912 he left Italy for the United States, settling in Brockton, Massachusetts. In 1914 he read Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs of a Revolutionist, subscribed to the Galleanista newspaper Cronaca Sovversiva, and soon converted to anarchism.[3] In 1916 he became an administrator for Cronaca Sovversiva.[1]
In 1917 Schiavina was arrested for refusing to register for conscription, spending 12 months in prison before being deported back to Italy in June 1919.[2][3] On arrival in Italy he was imprisoned for desertion before being released in September 1919 as part of a government amnesty. At the beginning of 1920 he moved to Turin and began working again on Cronaca Sovversiva.[1] In Fabriano in August 1921 he was arrested and accused of being a member of Arditi del Popolo, remaining in prison until acquitted in October 1922.[1]
At the start of 1923, with Mussolini having come to power, Schiavina fled Italy to Paris where he worked as a weaver alongside writing for the newspapers La Difesa per Sacco e Vanzetti and Il Monito. He was active in the French anti-fascist movement and the campaign to free Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, authoring the 1927 book Sacco e Vanzetti.[3][4][5]
In March 1928 he was smuggled into the United States under the pseudonym Max Sartin.[1][4] He soon took over the editorship of L’Adunata dei Refrattari, remaining editor until 1970.[3] In 1931 he began a relationship with Florina Rossi, staying together for the rest of his life.[6] Schiavina wrote under various pseudonyms, and regularly used L’Adunata to fiercely criticise fellow anarchist Carlo Tresca, continuing even after Tresca's death.[7] Schiavina died in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1987, still living under the false identity Max Sartin.[1][4]
References
- ^ a b c d e f "SCHIAVINA, Raffaele". Biblioteca Franco Serantini. Dizionario Biografico Online Degli Anarchici Italiani (in Italian). Retrieved 7 May 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b Brodie, Morris (2020). Transatlantic Anarchism During the Spanish Civil War and Revolution, 1936–1939: Fury Over Spain. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. p. 242. ISBN 978-0-429-32876-3. OCLC 1135094599.
- ^ a b c d Schiavina, Raffaele. "Autobiographical Notes by Raffaele Schiavina aka Max Sartin". Kate Sharpley Library. Paul Sharkey (translator). Retrieved 7 May 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) translated into English from Schiavina, Raffaele (August 1999). "Max Sartin, breve autobiografia" (PDF). Bollettino Archivio G. Pinelli (in Italian). Centro Studi Libertari: 43–45. - ^ a b c Avrich, Paul (1991). Sacco and Vanzetti: The Anarchist Background. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. pp. 213–217. ISBN 0-691-04789-8. OCLC 21971831.
- ^ Schiavina, Raffaele (1927). Sacco e Vanzetti: Cause e fini di un delitto di Stato (in French). Paris: Jean Bucco.
- ^ Avrich, Paul (1995). "Florence Rossi". Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America. Internet Archive. Princeton University Press. pp. 136–137. ISBN 978-0-691-03412-6.
- ^ Pernicone, Nunzio (2015). Carlo Tresca: Portrait of a Rebel. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 201, 236. ISBN 1-349-52834-X. OCLC 951524617.
