Severino Di Giovanni
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| Born |
17 March 1901 Chieti, Italy |
| Died | 1 February 1931 (aged 29) Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Movement | Anarchism |
Severino Di Giovanni (Chieti, Italy, 17 March 1901 – Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1 February 1931), was an Italian anarchist who immigrated to Argentina, where he became the best-known anarchist figure in that country for his campaign of violence in support of Sacco and Vanzetti and antifascism.
Di Giovanni was born on 17 March 1901, in Chieti, Abruzzo. Raised right after World War I in a period of deprivations, such as hunger and poverty, his upbringing had a huge impact on his politics. He followed courses to become a teacher, and soon started teaching, before graduating, in a school of his town. He learnt by his own the art of typography and read, in his free time, Mikhail Bakunin, Malatesta, Proudhon, and Élisée Reclus.
Di Giovanni started rebelling against authority at a very young age. At the age of 19 he was orphaned, and at the age of twenty (1921), fully embraced the anarchist movement. He married his cousin Teresa Masciulli in 1922, the same year Benito Mussolini's Black Shirts took power during the March on Rome. Giovanni and Teresa decided to exile themselves to Argentina, where they immediately became involved with anarchists and antifascist movements. Severino and Teresa had three children.
Di Giovanni arrived in Buenos Aires with the last big wave of Italian immigrants before World War II. He lived in Morón and travelled daily to Buenos Aires Capital to participate in meetings and plan actions against fascism and Italian fascist supporters in Argentina. Di Giovanni's ideology was close to the radical factions of the anarchist movement in Argentina, gathered around the magazine La Antorcha, then to the Argentine Regional Workers' Federation (FORA), and the historical newspaper La Protesta. During the 1920s, Argentina was led by the moderate left UCR Party, headed successively by Presidents Hipólito Yrigoyen and Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear.
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