
Attilio Deffenu (28 December 1890 – 16 June 1918) was an Italian journalist, soldier, exponent of Sardinian autonomism and a
syndicalist
Syndicalism is a labour movement within society that, through industrial unionism, seeks to unionize workers according to industry and advance their demands through strikes and other forms of direct action, with the eventual goal of gainin ...
.
He was born in 1890 in
Nuoro
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,
Sardinia
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, to parents Giuseppe, a merchant and president of the ''Società Operaia di Nuoro'' and Giovanna Sechi, a socialist sympathizer. In 1908, he enrolled in law at the
University of Pisa
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, where he supported
anarchist
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ideologies and sided against the
Italian occupation of Libya.
He became correspondent for the ''
Giornale d'Italia'', engaging actively in political life: joining the revolutionary unionism and, in 1913, fighting against the protectionism customs which favoured factories in
Northern Italy
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and penalized the economy of
Southern Italy
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The term "" today mostly refers to the regions that are associated with the people, lands or cultu ...
and the
islands
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.
He died on 16 June 1918 in the
Battle of the Piave River, under the command of his platoon of the infantry
Sassari Mechanized Brigade, and was decorated with a
Gold Medal of Military Valour.
An
armed merchantman
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of
Regia Marina
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Origin ...
launched in 1929 was named ''Attilio Deffenu''.
Bibliography
* Camillo Bellieni, Attilio Deffenu e il socialismo in Sardegna, Edizioni della Fondazione Il Nuraghe, Cagliari, 1925.
* Lorenzo Del Piano, Attilio Deffenu e la rivista Sardegna, Gallizzi, Sassari, 1963.
* Attilio Deffenu, Epistolario (1907-1918), a cura di Mario Ciusa Romagna, Fossataro, Cagliari, 1972.
* Sardegna. La rivista di Attilio Deffenu, a cura di Manlio Brigaglia, saggio introduttivo di Giovanni Maria Cherchi, Gallizzi, Sassari, 1976.
* Francesco Cucca, Lettere ad Attilio Deffenu (1907-1917), a cura di Simona Pilia, saggio introduttivo di Giuseppe Marci, CUEC, Cagliari, 2005.
* Attilio Deffenu, Scritti giornalistici (1907-1916), a cura di Giancarlo Porcu, saggio introduttivo di Gian Giacomo Ortu, Il Maestrale, Nuoro, 2008.
See also
*
Italian Front (World War I)
References
External links
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People from Nuoro
Italian male journalists
Italian military personnel killed in World War I
1890 births
1918 deaths
20th-century Italian journalists
20th-century Italian male writers