ABSTRACT
Nic:ola lac:c:o and Bal'foloilleo .anzeffi Nicola Sacco was twenty-nine, dark, smiling, small in stature. His father was the prosperous owner of a stretch of olive groves and vineyards on the south Adriatic coast. He left home, following the tracks of an elder brother who had settled in Massachusetts. In the United States he sought work in the shoe factories of New England. He married an Italian girl, Rosina, and in 1913 his son Dante was born. In his spare time he drank coffee in the Italian cafes of Boston, mixing with academics, journalists on the Italian-language papers, and voluble prophets of a myriad· shades of visionary republicanism. He was a quiet listener, but gradually his views shifted from the Garibaldi republicanism of his home to utopian socialism and then - much influenced by his personal affection for Galleani, the leading thinker in his cafe society - he became a philosophic anarchist.
