Politician and writer. Member of the Democratic Party, he participated in the Revolution of 1854 and was considered a utopian socialist.

Tresserra founded the Carbonary Society “El Falansterio” in Madrid, a society that had more than 80,000 members. He was jailed in El Saladero prison in 1859 because he was accused by the police of being responsible of Francesc de Paula Cuello’s death. As a result, he wrote his novel Los misterios del Saladero (published in1860), in which he defends a complete reform of the Spanish penitentiary system. His novels are historic and are called “filosófico-sociales.”

Tresserra served in the Federal Democratic-Republican Party after the 1868 Revolution and became the governor of Soria and Avila in 1873. He wrote political pamphlets such as “Los anarquistas, los socialistas y los comunistas, son demócratas?”

Ceferí Tresserra edited El libro del obrero, launched during a choral festival in 1862. The Libro del obrero, is a collection of literary texts from several Spanish intellectuals, compiled and edited by Treserra in 1862 as a philanthropic gesture addressed to Catalan workers participating in the choral movement. Each member of the chorus received a copy of the book along with a grammar and a dictionary. It was also sold to the public during this same festival, and the proceeds went to the choral societies.