- Edmondo Rossoni
Edmondo Rossoni (1884 –
June 8 ,1965 ) was an Italian Fascist politician.Life
Born to a working class family in
Tresigallo , a small town in theProvince of Ferrara , Rossoni was imprisoned in 1908 for hisrevolution ary activities as a syndicalist. Leaving Italy for theUnited States , he worked in Socialist organizations there, before editing the nationalist newspaper "La Tribuna" - renamed "L'Italia Nostra".A renegade of Socialism, Rossoni joined
Benito Mussolini 's Fascist movement in 1921. After theMarch on Rome , he continued his political activities before becoming undersecretary to the President of theGrand Fascist Council from 1932 to 1935.He served as
Italian Minister of Agriculture and Forestry from 1935 to 1939. In this capacity, he ordered the replanning and reconstruction of his native town of Tresigallo along rationalist lines, intending to transform it into a "new town" of Italy.Rossoni made himself famous on
July 25 ,1943 , by voting against Mussolini's leadership inside the Grand Council (thus siding with thecoup d'état innitiated byDino Grandi ). When Mussolini regained power in northern Italy, creating theItalian Social Republic , Rossoni was sentenced to death "in absentia ". After escaping toCanada , he returned toItaly in 1947 when his sentence had been commuted to life imprisonment.References
* [http://digilander.libero.it/lacorsainfinita/guerra2/personaggi/uomini.htm Tutti Gli Uomini del Duce] "(article in Italian; contains image of Rossoni)"
*Tinghino, John J., "Edmondo Rossoni: From Revolutionary Syndicalism to Fascism" (New York: Peter Lang, 1990).
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