[1] Bertani was friends with other anarchists including Errico Malatesta and Luigi Fabbri.
He came to settle in Montevideo, where he founded a publishing house which published writers such as Julio Herrera y Reissig, Rafael Barrett, Angel Falco, Ernesto Herrera, Manuel de Castro, Javier de Viana (author), and Delmira Agustini.
[2] Bertani owned a bookshop in the old city, which became a meeting place for writers such as Florencio Sánchez.
Alongside Virginia Bolten and other anarchists, he supported José Batlle y Ordóñez's government.
Bertani's daughter Orsolina was the mother of the Argentine filmmaker and singer Hugo del Carril.