Cat.No: 256282 Profumi Maledetti. Filippo Daudet, Ausonio Acrate, Aldo Ronco.

Profumi Maledetti

Rome: Edizioni De Fede, 1924. Paperback. 92p., wraps, 4.75x7.25 inches, illus., wraps worn, wraps detached but present, wraps and spine chipped with 2-inch chip at head of spine else good condition. Introduction in Italian, with poems in French. Only 5 in OCLC as of 12/2020.

Collection of poems written by the 15-year old Philippe Daudet before his suicide, published by a group of Italian anarchists to celebrate his life. Daudet was the son of the French monarchist journalist Leon Daudet. In 1923 he ran away from his parents' house to Paris, where he tried to enter the local anarchist scene and declared his intentions to commit a political assassination (he had several possible targets, including his own father). He was found dead in a taxi soon after. His death was ruled a suicide but his father believed he had been murdered and blamed the anarchists, who for their part blamed Leon Daudet. The older Daudet lost a lawsuit for defamation against the driver of the taxi in which his son's body was found and eventually fled to Belgium.

Cat.No: 256282

Price: $250.00