Augusto Masetti | |
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| Born | April 12, 1888 Sala Bolognese, Italy |
| Died | March 1966 (aged 77) Imola, Italy |
Augusto Masetti (1888–1966) 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.
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