Augusto Masetti
{{Short description|Italian anarchist (1888–1966)}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1888|4|12}}
| birth_place = Sala Bolognese, Italy
| death_date = {{death date and age|1966|3||1888|4|12}}
| death_place = Imola, Italy
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Augusto Masetti (1888–1966{{sfn|Tarozzi|2004}}) was an Italian anarchist known for an incident at the beginning of the Italo-Turkish War in which he shot his army commanding officer. A military court put him in an insane asylum, a move likely to have avoided creating a cause célèbre in Masetti during an unpopular war had he instead received the expected sentence of death by firing squad. Leftists waged a campaign to free Masetti.{{sfn|Jensen|2014|p=346}}
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Bibliography
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- {{Cite book |last1=Jensen |first1=Richard Bach |title=The Battle Against Anarchist Terrorism: An International History, 1878–1934 |date=2014 |isbn=978-1-107-03405-1 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |df=mdy-all }}
- {{Cite journal |last1=Tarozzi |first1=Fiorenza |title=MASETTI, Augusto |journal=Dizionario biografico online degli anarchici italiani |date=2004 |url=https://www.bfscollezionidigitali.org/entita/14114-masetti-augusto |language=it |df=mdy-all |access-date=December 28, 2021 }}
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- {{Cite book |last1=De Marco |first1=Laura |title=Il soldato che disse no alla guerra: storia dell'anarchico Augusto Masetti (1888–1966) |date=2003 |language=Italian |isbn=978-88-87583-22-9 |publisher=Spartaco |location=Santa Maria Capua Vetere |oclc=55113520 |df=mdy-all }}
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