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Cesare Sarfatti
A Venetian-born lawyer and politician, he moved through Milan’s cultural and public life in the early 20th century. He is also remembered as the husband of writer and critic Margherita Sarfatti, with whom he shared ties to the city’s artistic circles.
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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 built his career as a lawyer before becoming active in Italian public life. Sources on his life describe him as a politician as well as a prominent figure in Milan, where he later served as president of the Cassa di Risparmio delle Provincie Lombarde.
He married Margherita Grassini in 1898, and the couple had three children. After moving to Milan in the early 1900s, they became part of the city’s lively intellectual and artistic world.
Although he is not widely known today outside specialist histories, Cesare Sarfatti appears in several accounts of modern Italian cultural and political life because of both his own civic career and his connection to one of the best-known literary and artistic salons of the period.