Maurizio Antonioli (Milan, 29 August 1945 – Milan, 28 September 2023) was an Italian historian who contributed to the workers' and trade union movement research and the history of anarchism.[1]

Biography edit

Antonioli taught Contemporary History and History of the Trade Union Movement at the State University of Milan.[2][3] As a speaker, he participated in the conferences organized by the Luigi Einaudi Foundation on Anarchists and anarchy in the contemporary world (Turin 5–7 December 1969), on Revolutionary Syndicalism in Italy in the period of the Second International held in Piombino (from 28 to 30 June 1974),[4] and in Ferrara (from 2 to 5 June 1977) dedicated to the Revolutionary Syndicalism in the History of the International Workers' Movement.[5] In 2011 Antonioli was a speaker on the Pietro Gori study.[6][7]

He lived in Milan, where he died on September 28, 2023, at the age of 78.[8][9][10]

Works edit

  • Fiom from its origins to fascism, 1901-1924 [with B. Bezza] (1978, De Donato).
  • Union and progress. Fiom between image and reality (1983, FrancoAngeli).
  • Come or May: aspects of May Day in Italy between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (1988, FrancoAngeli).
  • May Day, repertoire of unique numbers from 1890 to 1924 , edited by Maurizio Antonioli and Giovanna Ginex (1988, Bibliographic Publishing)
  • Direct action and worker organization. Revolutionary syndicalism and anarchism between the end of the nineteenth century and fascism (1990, P. Lacaita).
  • Armando Borghi and the Italian Trade Union Union (1990, P. Lacaita).
  • Pietro Gori. The errant knight of anarchy (1995, BFS editions ).
  • Italian trade unionism from its origins to fascism (1997, BFS editions).
  • The Sun of the future. Anarchism in Italy from its origins to the First World War [with PC Masini] (1999, BFS editions).
  • Workers and trade union institutions: the origins of workers' representation (2002, BFS editions).
  • Reformists and revolutionaries. The Milan Chamber of Labor from its origins to the great war [with J. Torre Santos] (2006, FrancoAngeli).
  • Lost Sentinels. Anarchists, death, war (2009, BFS editions).
  • Children of the workshop. Anarchism, trade unionism and the workers' movement between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (2012, BFS editions).
  • An arduous and joyful utopia, symbols and myths of anarchists between the 19th and 20th centuries (2017, BFS editions).
  • Against the Church. The pro-Ferrer riots of 1909 in Italy (2009, BFS editions).
  • For a history of trade unions in Europe (2012, Bruno Mondadori)
  • Our homeland throughout the world. Pietro Gori in the Italian and international workers' movement (2012, BFS editions).

References edit

  1. ^ "Biblioteca Franco Serantini". www.bfs.it. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  2. ^ "Docenti nei Corsi di laurea". 2016-06-17. Archived from the original on 2016-06-17. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  3. ^ "Professori e Ricercatori dei Corsi di laurea". 2018-04-27. Archived from the original on 2018-04-27. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  4. ^ See M. Antonioli, Italian revolutionary syndicalism and organizational models: from Filippo Corridoni's industrialist project to the national industrial unions (1911-1914) , in Revolutionary syndicalism in Italy in the period of the Second International. Proceedings of the study conference, Piombino 28–30 June 1974 , «Historical research», a. 5, no. 1, January–June 1975, pp. 147-177.
  5. ^ Cf. M. Antonioli, Italian revolutionary syndicalism and international syndicalism from Marseille to London (1908-1913) , in Il Sindacalismo amministrazione nella storia del lavoro lavoro interna , special issue of «Ricerche Storico», a. 1, no. 1, January–April 1981, pp. 191-240.
  6. ^ See M. Antonioli, Pietro Gori. The birth of a myth , in our homeland is the whole world. Petro Gori in the Italian and international workers' and libertarian movement , in «Quaderni della Rivista storia dell'anarchismo», n. 5 (2012), pp. 19-33.
  7. ^ "Mostra bibliografica Le parole di Gori". 2018-04-27. Archived from the original on 2018-04-27. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  8. ^ "Lutto per la scomparsa di Maurizio Antonioli". www.storialavoro.it (in Italian). 2023-09-28. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  9. ^ Goodbye Antonioli, scholar of the union , Corriere della Sera, 1 October 2023, p.31
  10. ^ "È morto Maurizio Antonioli, lo storico dei movimenti operai e sindacali: i funerali a San Siro". Il Giorno (in Italian). 2023-09-30. Retrieved 2023-10-19.