Gerolamo Lazzeri

Gerolamo Lazzeri was born in 1894 in Bola of Tresana, a little village in Lunigiana, on the border between Tuscany and Liguria in Italy. His father died when he was quite young, so he moved to Milan, where his brother Giacinto already lived. In Milan, Lazzeri knew and worked with the young Mussolini, and collaborated with Benedetto Croce. During the First World War, and soon after, Lazzeri distanced himself from Mussolini and the rising fascism, denouncing the lawlessness and violence. …