CESARE ALGRANATI. — Journalist, born in Ancona in 1865, died in 1925. A Jew, he converted to Catholicism in 1887 in Rome on the occasion of his marriage, and began collaborating with *La Libertà* of Naples and *L’Osservatore Cattolico* of Milan. Monsignor Riccardi called him to Turin to direct *L’Italia Reale*, and there he later also directed *La Democrazia Cristiana*. After the riots of 1898, he moved to direct *La Patria* of Ancona, and in 1902 went to Bologna to direct *L’Avvenire d’Italia*, engaging the newspaper in widely noted polemics, especially during the Murri trial. In 1907, alongside *L’Avvenire*, he founded the humorous weekly *Il Mulo*, opposing it to the socialist-Masonic weekly *L’Asino*, which conducted vile campaigns—particularly pornographic—against the faith and the Pope, and he published it until 1915. Having left *L’Avvenire* and militant journalism, he withdrew into private life. In journalism and in numerous popular publications, some of which were decidedly antisemitic, the author used the pseudonym Rocca d’Adria.
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