Augusto Masetti | |
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Born | Sala Bolognese, Italy | April 12, 1888
Died | March 1966 Imola, Italy | (aged 77)
Augusto Masetti (1888–1966[1]) 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.[2]