# Felice Chilanti

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'''Felice Chilanti''' (10 December 1914 in [Ceneselli](/source/Ceneselli) – 26 February 1982 in [Rome](/source/Rome)) was an Italian [anti-fascist](/source/anti-fascist) and [journalist](/source/journalist).

==Biography==
He was born to a Rovigo peasant family soon before Italy entered [World War I](/source/World_War_I). Chilanti moved to Rome as a teenager to study agronomy and from 1934 took up employment as a writer for the farming union's in-house journal. He was soon drawn to the Fascist Left by Giuseppe Bottai and Edmondo Rossoni who were syndicalists who viewed Fascism as a social revolution against capitalism.<ref>{{Cite web|title = CHILANTI, Felice|url = http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/felice-chilanti_(Dizionario_Biografico)/|website = www.treccani.it|access-date = 2015-10-02}}</ref>

Chilanti wrote an October 1939 article in [Benito Mussolini](/source/Benito_Mussolini)'s ''Gerarchia'' welcoming the [Hitler-Stalin pact](/source/Hitler-Stalin_pact) as heralding the future collaboration of the Soviet and Fascist régimes.<ref>{{Cite journal|title = 'Stalin contro la democrazia'|last = Chilanti|first = Felice|date = October 1939|journal = Gerarchia}}</ref> During the war Chilanti became increasingly disillusioned with his government's failure to live up to its purported anti-capitalist objectives. While seeking to advance such radical policies he formed a group around the newspaper ''[Ventuno Domani](/source/Ventuno_Domani)'', whose collaborators included novelist [Vasco Pratolini](/source/Vasco_Pratolini).

This 'anarcho-Fascist' circle drew the attention of Philo-Nazi American poet [Ezra Pound](/source/Ezra_Pound).<ref>{{Cite book|title = Ezra Pound: the Tragic Years|last = Wilhelm|first = James J.|publisher = Pennsylvania State University|year = 1977|location = University Park, PA|pages = 185–6}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title = Pisan Cantos|last = Pound|first = Ezra}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title = Ezra Pound fra i sediziosi degli anni quaranta|last = Chilanti|first = Felice}}</ref> Chilanti and his ally, Vittorio Ambrosini, mounted one of the most militant of all Left-Fascist projects when they attempted to eliminate the foreign minister [Galeazzo Ciano](/source/Galeazzo_Ciano), whom the plotters saw as a conservative brake on the regime.<ref>{{Cite book|title = Mussolini l'alleato|last = De Felice|first = Renzo|publisher = Einaudi|year = 1990|location = Turin|pages = 887}}</ref> Chilanti was quickly arrested and sent into internal exile [confino]. Chilanti then adopted communist politics from his Croatian cellmates.

During the [Italian Resistance](/source/Italian_Resistance) Chilanti was co-editor of the dissident-communist newspaper ''Bandiera Rossa'', organ of the [Movimento Comunista d'Italia](/source/Movimento_Comunista_d'Italia), an idiosyncratic force that Chilanti labelled 'the party of [Stalin](/source/Joseph_Stalin) who fought for [Bordiga](/source/Amadeo_Bordiga)'.  After liberation, Chilanti joined the [Italian Communist Party](/source/Italian_Communist_Party). He later grew disillusioned and signed up to the extra-parliamentary [Avanguardia Operaia](/source/Avanguardia_Operaia). As a result of throat cancer Chilanti was unable to speak in his final years.

Chilanti wrote numerous novels of which many were of a semi-autobiographical bent.<ref>[:it:Felice Chilanti](/source/%3Ait%3AFelice_Chilanti), Retrieved {{Circular reference|date=October 2015}}</ref>

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