Renzo Novatore is the pen-name of Abele Rizieri Ferrari who was born in Arcola, Italy (a village of La Spezia) on May 12, 1890 to a poor peasant family. Unwilling to adapt to scholastic discipline, he only attended a few months of the first grade of grammar school and then left school forever. Though his father forced him to work on the farm, his strong will and thirst for knowledge led him to become a self-taught poet and philosopher. Exploring these matters outside the limits imposed by the educational system, as a youth he read Stirner, Nietzsche, Wilde, Ibsen, Baudelaire, Schopenauer, and many others with a critical mind.
Introduction
Biographical Note
1917
Thoughts and Sayings
Cry of Rebellion
Intellectual Vagabonds
Toward the Conquest of New Dawns
Wild Flowers
Toward the Creative Nothing
Twilight Ballad
Weeping
1919
Anarchist Individualism in the Social Revolution
The Great(?) Brains... in the Time that Turns
Returning
The Expropriator
Toward the Hurricane
1920
A Life
The Anarchist Temperament in the Maelstrom of History
In the Circle of Life
Black Roses
Spiritual Perversity
De Profundis and Germinal!
My Iconic Individualism
I Am Also a Nihilist
My Maxims
Parabola
1921
In the Realm of Phantoms
The Revolt of the Unique
A Portrayal of Sorts
Introduction to the 1st Issue of Vertice
The Dream of My Adolescence
Beyond the Two Anarchies
The Mysterious
1922
Black Flags
Of Individualism and Rebellion
A “Female"
With Sincere Pity
Noontime Songs
Whip
1923
In Defense of Heroic and Expropriating Anarchism
Posthumous
Eternity's Song
Friendship and Friends
Renzo Novatore by Enzo Martucci
Renzo Novatore by Renzo Ferrari