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Cesare Sarfatti
A Venetian lawyer and socialist activist, he moved in Milan’s artistic circles and later took on prominent civic and financial roles. His life also intersects with that of Margherita Sarfatti, making him a revealing figure in early 20th-century Italian cultural history.
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Il processo e l'assoluzione di "Mafarka il Futurista"
by F. T. Marinetti, Salvatore Barzilai, Innocenzo Cappa, Luigi Capuana, Cesare Sarfatti
About the author
Born in Venice in 1866, Cesare Sarfatti trained as a lawyer and became active in socialist politics while still a young man. In 1899 he married Margherita Grassini, later known as Margherita Sarfatti, and the couple went on to have children before settling in Milan in the early 1900s.
In Milan, he was part of the city’s modern artistic and intellectual world, alongside his wife and the avant-garde circles around her. Beyond cultural life, he also held important public responsibilities, serving in national politics and later becoming president of the Cassa di Risparmio delle Provincie Lombarde in 1923.
He died in Milan in January 1924. Remembered today through biographical and institutional records, he stands at an interesting crossroads of Italian political, civic, and cultural life in the years before Fascism fully consolidated power.