Filippo Corridoni (19 August 1887 – 23 October 1915) was an Italian

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and

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 ...

. Born in Pausula, today

Corridonia Corridonia is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Macerata in the Italian region Marche.It is located about south of Ancona and about southeast of Macerata. Corridonia was called, until 1931, Pausula which was later changed by Benito ...

, he was a friend of future

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dictator

Benito Mussolini Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (29 July 188328 April 1945) was an Italian politician and journalist who, upon assuming office as Prime Minister of Italy, Prime Minister, became the dictator of Fascist Italy from the March on Rome in 1922 un ...

. Between 24 and 25 January 1915, the ''

Fasci d'Azione Rivoluzionaria The ''Fasci d'Azione Rivoluzionaria'' (English: " Fasces of Revolutionary Action"; : 'Leagues of Revolutionary Action') was an Italian political movement founded in 1914 by Benito Mussolini, and active mainly in 1915. Sponsored by Alceste De A ...

'' were founded in the presence of Corridoni and Mussolini, among others. That same year, numerous left-interventionists were called up, including Corridoni and Mussolini themselves. In October 1915, Corridoni died during the

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, being hit in the head by an Austrian-Hungarian Army bullet at the ''Trincea delle Frasche'' ("Trench of the Branches") in San Martino del Carso. Between 1914 and 1915, he had been part of the left-interventionism movement that supported the

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entry into the Great War, and was pictured taking part to a 1915 interventionist demonstration in

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. This stance costed him, among others, the expulsion from the Unione Sindacale Italiana, whose Milanese section he was leading. These went on to join with

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interventionism, which was already creating unrest in the squares with

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti (; 22 December 1876 – 2 December 1944) was an Italian poet, editor, art theorist and founder of the Futurist movement. He was associated with the utopian and Symbolist artistic and literary community Abbaye de ...

and

Umberto Boccioni Umberto Boccioni (; ; 19 October 1882 – 17 August 1916) was an influential Italian painter and sculptor. He helped shape the revolutionary aesthetic of the Futurism movement as one of its principal figures. Despite his short life, his approach ...

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