John Rosselli (1927-2001)

Profoundly aware of the historical and symbolic importance of his father's role in antifascism, he took care to monitor the memory of the Rosselli brothers, who were murdered when he was ten years old. A precocious child, he grew up in several countries, speaking three languages, and with a sense of constant, looming danger. However, John Rosselli was - as Stuart Woolf observed - much more than a mere custodian of the family name: journalist, academic historian, original musicologist. “Half English, half Italian; half Jewish, half Gentile; rich (for a time) but Socialist; libertarian but revolutionary”: a European intellectual, even when he came to live in the Sienese countryside for the last years of his life. One of the stories of lives on the move, in the portal of the history of qualified emigration since fascism, with photos, map, timeline, insights