Franco Bertolucci was born in Pietrasanta (Lucca) in 1957 and graduated in History at the University of Pisa. He is director of the Franco Seranti Library in Pisa and member of the editorial comity of the BFS editions. He has collaborated I numerous national projects such as the “Rivista storica dell’anarchismo” (1994-2004) or the anarchists Italians Biographic Dictionary (2003-04). Between the publications edited during the last years Nostra patria è il mondo intero. Pietro Gori nel movimento operaio e libertario italiano e internazionale (2012), «Kein Mann, kein Geld für den Krieg». Italienische Anarchisten und Gewerkschafter und der ErsteWeltkrieg, in Ehern, tapfer, vergessen. Die unbekannte Internationale: Anarchistinnen & Syndicalisteinnen und dei Esrte Weltkrieg (2014), A. Marianelli, Eppur si muove! Movimento operaio a Pisa e provincia dall’Unità d’Italia alla dittatura. Studi e ricerche (2016).