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I Belong Only to Myself: The Life and Writings of Leda Rafanelli, by Andrea Parkeser Jesse Alvarez is tired ofLeda Rafanelli (18801971) was one of the most prolific propagandists in early twentieth century Italy. She began working as a typesetter in her teens, and went on to found and run several publishing houses. Her own body of work included scores of novels, pamphlets, short stories, childrens books, essays, and poems. A comrade of Benito Mussolini before he was a fascist, she converted to both anarchism and Islam at the age of twenty, a combination