Francesco Natta

Born into a humble family, his parents were Giuseppe and Teresa Milanesiu.

His political education was influenced by the Paris Commune (1871) and at first also by Mazzini's ideas. As a mechanic, he joined in Florence, Tuscany, (Italy) along with his brother Agenore, in the ranks of the Union of Social Democracy. Shortly after the beginning of 1872, he participated in the creation of the first Florentine section (Florence, Tuscany, (Italy)) of the International Workers Association (IAT) and became an important figure in the Italian Federation of International Workers' Association (IWA) in which he took care of the correspondence commission and also participated in the "Italian Committee for the Social Revolution", a clandestine organization created in December 1873 Andrea CostaMijaíl Alexandrovich Bakuninby Carlo The movement, which had planned an insurrection in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, (Italy) failed its intention in August 1874 and was arrested along with the other internationalists. In the trial that takes place during the summer of 1875, he is acquitted along with all other defendants.

Francesco Natta organized, in June 1876, a congress of the Tuscan section, Central Italy, (Italy) of the International Association of Workers (IWA) and convened for September 24, 1876 in Florence, Tuscany, (Italy) the third Congress of the Italian Federation. The date moves to October 22 due to the repression that tries to ban its progress. However, the congress will take place in a hotel in Tosi, Florence, Tuscany, (Italy) despite the arrests of many delegates, including Francesco Natta himself, on October 19. Later, in November 1876, he organized the first Congress of Tuscan Workers, Tuscany, Italy.

After the episode of La Banda del matese, International Workers Association (IWA) is banned and many militants are imprisoned, but Francesco Natta continues to make the organization live illegally.

He was arrested on October 3, 1878 along with thirteen other companions. After a year of pretrial detention, he returns to court. Defended by Francesco Saverio Merlino, he was acquitted and released on 6 January 1880, but the Italian Federation was divided between the insurrectionists and those like Andrea Costa who chose parliamentarism.

In 1883, with Francesco Pezzi, Francesco Natta participated in the birth of the Socialist Federation of Florence, Tuscany, (Italy) which, despite its name, adopted the anarchist communist program.

But, back to Florence, Tuscany, Italy, he was arrested in May 1883. Released provisionally in November of the same year, he published “The (Social Issue” to strengthen the Italian anarchist movement. He was tried in Rome, Lazio, Italy, in February 1884 for criminal association and sentenced to 3 years in prison, but is released on bail pending appeal. Francesco Natta signs together with some fifty comrades a protest manifesto that will give him a 30-month prison sentence in absentia because he flees. Francesco Natta goes out clandestinely along with Errico Malatesta and Francesco Pezzi for Marseille, Bocas del Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, (France) from where they will arrive in Buenos Aires, (Argentina) in this place opens a small mechanical workshop with his son.

When Errico Malatesta and Francesco Pezzi returned to Europe in 1889, Francesco Natta remained in Argentina. He later resides in La Plata, where he died in March 1914, the exact day is unknown.