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Emidio Recchioni, (1864-1934)
Biographical/historical note :
Emidio Recchioni, Vernon Richards' father, was born in Russi near Ravenna, Italy in 1864. He was employed as a railroad-employee. Originally a republican and follower of Giuseppe Mazzini, he was converted to anarchism in the early 1890s by Cesare Agostinelli in Ancona.
He started to write, in particular satirical and polemical articles on local subjects for the anarchist press, mainly Sempre Avanti. With Agostinelli and others he founded and edited L'art. 248 in 1894.
In June 1894 he was arrested in connection with the shooting of the Italian Prime Minister Crispi and eventually confined to three years in prison. Released in March 1897 he started together with Errico Malatesta and friends L'Agitazione in Ancona. Soon he was arrested again and was sent to the prison isles from which he managed to escape.
Having lost his job at the railroad company he emigrated to England in 1900, and started a wine and pasta store in London named "King Bomba", in memory of the notorious tyrant of Naples, King Ferdinand II. He also traded in Carrara marble.
He was involved in all Italian anarchist publications published before and during the First World War and was also a regular contributor to La Protesta and L'Adunata dei refrattari, mainly under his pen name Nemo. He organized and financed a number of attempts on the fascist Italian dictator Mussolini.
He died in Paris in 1934.
Source: International Institute of Social History.
(International Institute of Social History)
Added 7/15/2001
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