Comunicare la libertà: fogli volanti anarchici tra Otto e Novecento in Italia

The article presents a research about Italian broadsides and leaflets printed by anarchists from 1872 and about 1930. This material has frequently been considered less important - in libraries - than books, so they haven’t conserved it at all, or in poor quantities. Italian anarchist movement used a lot broadsides to support their ideas and promote events. A broadsheet, in a few lines, can concentrate a brief communication, a thought, or news, this ability has made it suitable for widespread diffusion, for being read aloud and for placarding. In the first part the author states the evolution and the role of leaflet in the anarchist publishing, then she presents some interesting cases