#The Collected Writings of Renzo Novatore

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I should be clear: I possess a heart and a sword, and enjoy being as generous with the one as with the other.

— Renzo Novatore, The Collected Writings of Renzo Novatore, transl by Wolfi Landstreicher, (2012)

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“I do not want to unite with the multitude of those who flatter the proletariat, excusing them, praising them, adorning them with wreathes. No, oh distinguished windbags, your verve disguises nothing. The “people” is always there, idiotic, cowardly, resigned. And I, who consider myself superior, desire to be so, and both the bourgeoisie and the proletariat will pay for my superiority”

— Bruno Filippi, The Rebels Dark Laughter

Bruno Filippi was born in Livorno, Italy, into a large family, the first of six brothers, and his father was a typographer. His family moved to Milan when he was still a child and in 1915, he already had trouble with the local police forces. That same year, he was arrested during an anti-militarist demonstration where he had a warm gun without bullets.

While still an adolescent he discovered the philosophy of Max Stirner and so he embraced it. Filippi was a regular contributor to the Italian individualist anarchist journal Iconoclasta! where he collaborated with the notorious individualist anarchist Renzo Novatore. In 1920, the editors of the paper printed a booklet with many of his articles entitled Posthumous Writings of Bruno Filippi.

After the war, in 1919, the biennio rosso events exploded in which he participated. On September 7, 1919, he died in Milan, while trying to explode a bomb directed at a meeting of the richest people in the city. Renzo Novatore wrote an article dedicated to him called "In The Circle of Life. In Memory of Bruno Filippi." There he said that Filippi "immolated himself in a fruitful embrace with death because he madly loved Life. We have the need and the entitlement to. say of him that which was said of the D'Annunzian hero: “That the slaves of the marketplace turn around and remember!”"

Contemporary American insurrectionary anarchist Wolfi Landstreicher translated some of his writings into English in a collection he titled The rebel's dark laughter: the writings of Bruno Filippi. Landstreicher says about Filippi that "His essays, stories and prose poems show no mercy for either domination or subservience in any form, and he was as harsh in his assessment of the slaves who resigned themselves to their slavery as to the masters who exploited and oppressed them. He could be faulted, like — Renzo Novatore, for his lack of class analysis. But when watching the masses of the poor and working people go out without protest to slaughter each other at the orders of their masters, it must have been difficult for the few who did refuse this slaughter not to be disgusted by such sheep — like behavior. In 1919, when there was an uprising in Italy, Filippi was out there fighting with the insurgent exploited, clear about who was the enemy."

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Thoughts and Sayings

| April 22nd 2017 | The Anarchist Library

Author: Renzo Novatore Title: Thoughts and Sayings Date: 1917 Notes: Translated by Wolfi Landstreicher. Source: The Collected Writings of Renzo Novatore

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This is the dark hour of my black melancholy.

— RENZO NOVATORE ⚜️ The Collected Writings of Renzo Novatore, transl by Wolfi Landstreicher, (2012)

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To live all battles, all defeats, all victories, all dreams, all sorrows, and all hopes intensely and dangerously.

— RENZO NOVATORE ⚜️ The Collected Writings of Renzo Novatore, transl by Wolfi Landstreicher, (2012)

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The eyes of our dead tell us the “why” of life.

— RENZO NOVATORE ⚜️ The Collected Writings of Renzo Novatore, transl by Wolfi Landstreicher, (2012)

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Blood requires blood. That is ancient history! It can turn back no more.

— RENZO NOVATORE ⚜️ The Collected Writings of Renzo Novatore, transl by Wolfi Landstreicher, (2012)

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As the poet transforms his lyre into a dagger.

— Renzo Novatore, The Collected Writings of Renzo Novatore, transl by Wolfi Landstreicher, (2012)

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Because we are lovers of danger; the reckless ones in all undertakings, the conquerors of the impossible, the promoters and precursors of all “endeavors”!

— RENZO NOVATORE ⚜️ The Collected Writings of Renzo Novatore, transl by Wolfi Landstreicher, (2012)

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We heat our pen in the volcanic fire of our negating spirit. We dip it in our vigorous heart, full of rebellious blood.

— RENZO NOVATORE ⚜️ The Collected Writings of Renzo Novatore, transl by Wolfi Landstreicher, (2012)

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Wrapped only in the cloak of our raging passions.

— Renzo Novatore, The Collected Writings of Renzo Novatore, transl by Wolfi Landstreicher, (2012)

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Because we hear the voice of the blood that cries from underground.

— Renzo Novatore, The Collected Writings of Renzo Novatore, transl by Wolfi Landstreicher, (2012)

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You still want to go on living on your knees. But I have understood life. And anyone who understands life cannot live on his knees.

— Renzo Novatore, The Collected Writings of Renzo Novatore, transl by Wolfi Landstreicher, (2012)

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Don’t speak, and allow me to look into your eyes where I will read your innermost being.

— Renzo Novatore, The Collected Writings of Renzo Novatore, transl by Wolfi Landstreicher, (2012)

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They looked into each other’s eyes. The fire of love flashed in each of their pupils like volcanic lava. They then understood what the Teacher had told them and, recognizing each other as “kindred spirits.”

— RENZO NOVATORE ⚜️ The Collected Writings of Renzo Novatore, transl by Wolfi Landstreicher, (2012)

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Our time is a time of decadence.

— Renzo Novatore, The Collected Writings of Renzo Novatore, transl by Wolfi Landstreicher, (2012)