Frank Brand

Frank Brand (aka Enrico Arrigoni) (died 1986 December 7 aged 92) was a lathe operator, house painter, bricklayer, dramatist, anarchist. His body is found on the floor near the bed [in his apartment] by his old comrades Valerio Isca and Pasquale Buono.

In 1963 Brand worked on the publication of the Libertarian Book Clubʼs edition of Stirnerʼs The Ego and His Own (cover design was by Fermin Rocker). He left his books and collection of opera records to the Libertarian Book Club. His body was cremated on 1986 December 11.”

“The “Frank Brand” I knew was an illegal. That is, he lived in the USA as an illegal immigrant. He was also an illegalist — that is, a law‐breaker by conviction and principle. He used pseudonyms (Frank Branch, Harry Arrigoni, Harry Goni) and false papers to hide his past as a militant revolutionary anarchist in Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany, Russia, Hungary, Cuba, Argentina, Mexico, and Spain. At the same time, however, he was completely open about his beliefs and even about his identity — he even wrote his books under his own real name, Enrico Arrigoni, although his friends often addressed him by his nom de guerre…” ~ Peter Lamborn Wilson

External link

• http://www.anarchist‐studies.org/article/articleview/46/1/7/
• Enrico Arrigoni at the Daily Bleed's Anarchist Encyclopedia