Stefanoni

(Luigi). Italian writer and publicist, b. Milan, 1842. In ’59, his first Romance, The Spanish in Italy was suppre ed by the Austrians. He joined Garibaldi’s volunteers and contributed to Unita Italian a . In ’66, he founded at Milan the Society of Freethinkers and the organ Il Libero Pensiero , in which he wrote A critical History of Superstition , afterwards published separately 2 vols. ’69. He also compiled a Philosophical Dictionary, ’73–75; and wrote several romances as L’Inferno , The Red and Black of Rome , etc. He translated Büchner’s Force and Matter , Morin’s Jesus réduit , La Mettrie’s Man-machine , Letourneau’s Physiology of the Pa ions , and Feuerbach’s E ence of Religion .