A-Infos (en) Italy, Umanita Nova - Editorial Feature: MICHELE PANTALEO. Life and Writings of a Rebel (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Nicola Fanizza, Sebastiano Gernone ---- MICHELE PANTALEO. Life and 
Writings of a Rebel ---- Edizioni dal Sud
The life and works of a major figure in Italian anarchism, and in Apulia 
in particular. Michele Pantaleo (Bari, 1887-1944) devoted himself to the 
defense of the lower classes as a militant journalist, anarchist 
theorist, literary critic, short story writer, and even poet. ---- These 
are powerful pages. Drawing on previously unpublished documents, the 
research focuses on the most significant turning points in his life: his 
self-taught education at a printing press; his throwing a chair at the 
jurors during the reading of the sentence against the anarchist Sabino 
Sassanelli; the trials he endured during the four years spent in the 
"tomb of the living" and, subsequently, the twelve years spent in 
confinement; His work as a proofreader and then as an editor at 
Humanitas publishing house; his collaboration with various anarchist 
publications; and, finally, his solitary death in December 1944 at the 
"Casa dei Poverelli" in Bari, on the seafront wall along which he loved 
to walk.
Pantaleo fought for a different world, more just and freer. In his 
works, we find the dream of a social and political rebirth and, at the 
same time, a clear rejection of bureaucratic and totalitarian forms of 
politics (fascism, Stalinism) as well as dominant values. For all this, 
he paid a very high price. Indeed, he paid more than others for his 
belonging to anarchist culture: marginalization, isolation, and, above 
all, oblivion.

Nicola Fanizza (Mola di Bari 1951), after graduating in Philosophy from 
the University of Bari, moved to Milan. Here, starting in the 1980s, he 
was editor of "La Balena Bianca" (Pellicani) and "InOltre" (Jaca Book). 
He later collaborated with "L'Acropoli", "Alfabeta2", "Nazione Indiana", 
and "Machina".
He is the author of several books. He directs the website of the Piero 
Delfino Pesce Documentation Center. He specializes in history and 
philosophical anthropology.
In 2016, Edizioni dal Sud published "Maddalena Santoro and Arnaldo 
Mussolini. The love story that the Duce wanted to erase".

Sebastiano Gernone (Bari, 1957) graduated in Political Science from the 
University of Bari with a thesis on Brigandage after the Unification.

His articles have appeared in "il manifesto", "Il Calendario del 
Popolo", "l'antifascista", and "Conoscenza Religiosa".
For RAI, he conceived and collaborated on the direction and editing of 
the documentary Ritorno a Ventotene, about anti-fascist exiles.
He conducts research with Ipsaic.
With Edizioni dal Sud, in 2020, he edited the volume Mario Mancini. 
Appunti della mia vita.

https://umanitanova.org/segnalazione-editoriale-michele-pantaleo-vita-e-scritti-di-un-ribelle/
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