Piero Gobetti, Italy (1901-1926)
Piero Gobetti was born in Turin, Italy in 1901. A politician and thinker Gobetti founded in 1918, and edited until February 1920, the newspaper Energie nuove. In this paper he confronted the problems of life and culture in Italy. The political struggle of the post war politics in Italy, the influence of Gramsci's personality and the world of the working class in Turin turned Gobetti to the factories and Communist paper L'ordine nuovo. However after two years dramatic and literary criticism Gobetti developed an interest in the ideas of the men who in February 1922 founded the weekly Rivoluzione Liberale, in which they published their political programme.
He has been considered to be one of the early Italian Radicals, who acted as an intellectual precursor to the leading school of Radicals in Italy who were mostly pessimistic, critical of Liberal and Fascist government and readily accepted Southern corruption. Gobetti died in 1926 at the age of 24.