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I had a house: they destroyed it. I had a newspaper: they closed it. I had a university chair: I was forced to abandon it. I hadas I still dodreams, dignity, ideals: to defend them I was sent to prison. I had teachers: they murdered them. Carlo Rosselli on Italys fascist regime
Italys Rosselli family were members of the cosmopolitan, cultural elite in Florence at the start of the 20th century. Led by their fierce matriarch, Amelia Rosselli, they were also vocal anti-fascists. As Mussolini rose to power in Italy following WWI, the Rossellis took leading roles in the rebellion against him, a stance that few in their class would risk. And when Mussolini established a police state whose tactics grew more brutal, the...
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PUBLISHED BY RANDOM HOUSE CANADA
Copyright 2017 Caroline Moorehead
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review. Published in 2017 by Random House Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, and simultaneously in the United Kingdom by Chatto & Windus, an imprint of Vintage, a Penguin Random House company. Distributed in Canada by Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto.
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Moorehead, Caroline, author
A bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her sons, and their fight against fascism / Caroline Moorehead.
Includes bibliographical references.
Issued in print and electronic formats.
ISBN 9780345814050
eBook ISBN 9780345814074
1. Rosselli, Amelia. 2. Rosselli, Carlo, 18991937. 3. Rosselli, Nello, 19001937. 4. Rosselli family. 5. IntellectualsItalyBiography. 6. FascismItalyHistory20th century. 7. Anti-fascist movementsItalyHistory20th century. 8. ItalyPolitics and government19141945. I. Title.
DG575.R38M67 2017945.0910922C2017-900798-X
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Carlo and Nello
The Family
Amelia Pincherle Rosselli, playwright
Joe Rosselli, musicologist
Aldo, their eldest son, known as Topinino, born in 1895
Carlo, born 1899
Nello, born 1900
Marion Cave, Carlos wife
Their children, Giovanni (Mirtillino), Melina and Andrea
Maria Todesco, Nellos wife
Their children, Silvia, Paola, Aldo and Alberto
Gabriele Pincherle, Amelias brother
Alberto Moravia, Amelias nephew
Giulio and Giorgina Zabban, honorary uncle and aunt
Their anti-fascist circle
Giovanni Bassanesi, pilot
Riccardo Bauer, economist
Piero Calamandrei, jurist
Gina Lombroso, writer
Emilio Lussu, friend on Lipari
Francesco Fausto Nitti, friend on Lipari
Ferruccio Parri, journalist
Ernesto Rossi, teacher
Gaetano Salvemini, historian
Filippo Turati, socialist leader
Mussolinis Men
Italo Balbo, ras of Ferrara
Arturo Bocchini, head of police
Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolinis son-in-law and foreign minister
Carlo del Re, spy
Amerigo Dumini, fascist henchman
Dino Segre (Pitigrilli), spy
Tullio Tamburini, leader of squadristi in Florence
| 1870 | 16 January | Amelia Pincherle born in Venice |
| 1892 | 3 April | Marriage of Amelia to Joe Rosselli |
| 1898 | 29 October | Premier of Amelias first play, Anima |
| 1903 | October | Amelia Rosselli and her sons, Aldo, Carlo and Nello, arrive in Florence |
| 1921 | May | Mussolini wins thirty-five seats in parliament |
| 1922 | 28 October | March on Rome, after which Mussolini becomes prime minister |
| 1924 | April | General elections give the fascists a majority |
| 10 June | Giacomo Matteotti kidnapped and murdered | |
| 1925 | 3 January | Mussolinis speech to parliament and start of his dictatorship |
| 1926 | 5 November | Passing of the most fascist laws: opposition parties dissolved, anti-fascist organisations closed down, censorship increased, penalties for trying to leave the country illegally. Appointment of Arturo Bocchini as head of police |
| 25 November | A new law for the defence of the State sets up the Special Tribunal with severe penalties including death for any opposition activity | |
| 1929 | 11 February | Concordat between the Italian state and the Vatican |
| 1935 | 3 October | Italian invasion of Ethiopia |
| 1936 | 5 May | Italian troops enter Addis Ababa |
| 9 May | Declaration of Italys African empire; Victor Emmanuel III becomes Emperor of Ethiopia | |
| July | Start of the Spanish Civil War | |
| 1937 | January | Italy leaves the League of Nations |
| 1939 | 22 May | Mussolini and Hitler sign the Pact of Steel and become Axis partners |
| 1940 | 10 June | Italy declares war on France and Britain |
| 1943 | 25 July | Overthrow and imprisonment of Mussolini |
| 8 September | Armistice with the Allies announced | |
| 23 September | Mussolini sets up the Repubblica Sociale Italiana in Sal |
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