Cesare Seassaro · L’Ordine Nuovo

Name: Cesare Seassaro
Born: 1891, Pavia, Italy; exact date unknown
Died: November 1921, Fiume (now Rijeka); exact day unresolved
Aliases: Caesar; CAESAR.
Position in 1919–1920: Lawyer; socialist publicist and contributor on military organization; organizer in the veterans’ movement
Affiliations: Italian Socialist Party; Lega Proletaria Mutilati Invalidi Reduci Orfani e Vedove di Guerra; Communist Party of Italy from 1921
Council delegate: unknown
Bio: Seassaro was a Milan lawyer of Catholic formation who became a socialist during the First World War. Writing as Caesar, he contributed a series on a projected socialist army to L’Ordine Nuovo in 1919. He helped organize the proletarian veterans’ movement and joined the Communist Party of Italy at its foundation in 1921. Later that year he worked on Il Lavoratore in Trieste and went to Fiume for communist organizational work, dying there in November.
Articles: 16
Indexed full catalog cards · Issues I.1, I.2, I.3, I.4, I.5, I.6, I.7, I.8, I.9, I.10, I.11, I.12, I.13, I.14, I.15, I.16, I.17, I.18, I.19, I.20, I.21, I.22, I.23, I.24, I.25, I.26, I.27, I.28, I.29, I.30, I.31, I.32, I.33, I.34, I.35, I.36, I.37, I.38, I.39, I.40, I.41, I.42, I.43, II.1, II.2, II.3, II.4, II.5, II.6. Coauthored cards count once for each named author. Serialized installments are counted as separate issue cards.
Brief records / quotations: 0 · Separate from the Articles count.
Other Notes: The consulted accounts do not securely settle his exact birth date or death day. Caesar is not the unidentified Il combattente contributor. Issue I.4, pp.[I]29-30 establishes the military contribution, not service as a factory delegate. The editorial footnote to I.8, L’esercito socialista — I mezzi, identifies his 1915 Critica Sociale essay and says he moved from national-democratic sympathies into the Socialist Party early in the war. This is the journal’s contemporary biographical testimony. In I.24, p.185, footnote 1, Caesar explicitly states that he practices law to earn a living while preferring study and publicistic work. His proposal for councils to provide legal education (pp.185–186) does not establish that such services already operated.

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