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Alberto Meschi

anarchist (1879–1958)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ3608444 ↗
Source-derived summary

Alberto Meschi was an Italian anarchist, trade union organizer, and anti-fascist fighter.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Alberto Meschi” as anarchist (1879–1958). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 12-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1879-05-27. The account is most persuasive where Alberto, Meschi and anarchist can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as anarchist (1879–1958). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3608444. VIAF identifies the subject as 48905596. The Library of Congress control number is no2002102157. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Alberto Meschi” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.