Filippi was born in Livorno, into a large family, the first of six brothers, and his father was a typographer.
In 1920, the editors of the paper printed a booklet with many of his articles entitled Posthumous Writings of Bruno Filippi.
On September 7, 1919, he died in Milan, while trying to explode a bomb directed at a meeting of the richest people in the city.
[1] The Italian anarchist Belgrado Pedrini among others in the mid 1970s set up at Carrara the Circolo Anarchico Bruno Filippi.
Landstreicher says about Filippi that "His essays, stories and prose poems show no mercy for either domination or subservience in any form, and he was as harsh in his assessment of the slaves who resigned themselves to their slavery as to the masters who exploited and oppressed them.