Journal of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Split, No.10 December 2017.

Original scientific paper

Silvia Boero ; Portland State University, USA 

pages 3-13

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Boero, S. (2017). MEMORIE DI UNA CHIROMANTE DI LEDA RAFANELLI: AUTOBIOGRAFIA E POLITICA MILITANTE. Zbornik radova Filozofskog fakulteta u Splitu, (10), 3-13. Retrieved from  https://ffst.unist.hr/en/zbornik/archive/10_2017/10_1

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Boero, Silvia. “MEMORIE DI UNA CHIROMANTE DI LEDA RAFANELLI: AUTOBIOGRAFIA E POLITICA MILITANTE.” Zbornik radova Filozofskog fakulteta u Splitu, vol. , no. 10, 2017, pp. 3-13. https://ffst.unist.hr/en/zbornik/archive/10_2017/10_1. Accessed  &202307;06

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Boero, Silvia. “MEMORIE DI UNA CHIROMANTE DI LEDA RAFANELLI: AUTOBIOGRAFIA E POLITICA MILITANTE.” Zbornik radova Filozofskog fakulteta u Splitu , no. 10 (2017): 3-13. https://ffst.unist.hr/en/zbornik/archive/10_2017/10_1

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Boero, S. (2017). ‘MEMORIE DI UNA CHIROMANTE DI LEDA RAFANELLI: AUTOBIOGRAFIA E POLITICA MILITANTE’, Zbornik radova Filozofskog fakulteta u Splitu, (10), pp. 3-13. Available at: https://ffst.unist.hr/en/zbornik/archive/10_2017/10_1 (Accessed: &202307;06)

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Boero S. MEMORIE DI UNA CHIROMANTE DI LEDA RAFANELLI: AUTOBIOGRAFIA E POLITICA MILITANTE. Zbornik radova Filozofskog fakulteta u Splitu [Internet]. 2017 [cited &202307;2023];(10):3-13. Available from: https://ffst.unist.hr/en/zbornik/archive/10_2017/10_1

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S. Boero, “MEMORIE DI UNA CHIROMANTE DI LEDA RAFANELLI: AUTOBIOGRAFIA E POLITICA MILITANTE”, Zbornik radova Filozofskog fakulteta u Splitu, vol., no. 10, pp. 3-13, 2017. [Online]. Available: https://ffst.unist.hr/en/zbornik/archive/10_2017/10_1. [Accessed: &202307;06]

Abstracts:

Leda Rafanelli (1880 – 1971) was a political activist, a poet and a novelist, a scholar of Arabic languages, and an individualist anarchist. She converted to Sufism at a very early age, while she was travelling in Egypt, where she met Luigi Polli, a comrade who introduced her to the Italian anarchist circles in Alexandria; later he became her first husband and co-publisher. Although many individualist anarchists would side in favor of World War I as interventionists, Leda stated her pacifist ideas throughout her long life. She wrote tirelessly, from political pamphlets to children stories, from anti- colonialist novels to biographies and auto-biographies. With Giuseppe Monanni, her second partner, she founded the influential publishing house Casa Editrice Sociale, active from 1907 to 1935. Memorie di una chiromante (The memories of a fortune teller) was published in 2010 thanks to the research conducted by Milva Cappellini and Fiamma Chessa, the director and keeper of the Archive Famiglia Berneri – Aurelio Chessa in Reggio Emilia. Written when Leda had reached her maturity, it is a collective meta-autobiography and an invaluable handbook to practice existence as a political act through the methodology of self narration – which, especially in the case of women’s autobiography, becomes quintessentially political.

Keywords:

Anarchism; autobiography; antifascism; colonialism; feminism; marginality; pacifism; Sufism

URI:

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