Poetry. Translated from the Italian by Lucia Re and Paul Vangelisti. The daughter of an Italian father and an English mother, Rosselli was born in PAris in 1930 and spent her childhood in France. Growing up speaking French, English, and Italian, she was, from childhood on, multilingual, which would highly influence the syntactical complexity of her poetry, particularly her major collection Variazioni belliche (WAR VARIATIONS), published in 1964. The second determining factor of her life was the murder of her father, the anti-Fascist martyr Carlo Rosselli, and his brother--both brutally killed by order of Benito Mussolini and Galeazzo Ciano, at Bagnole-de-l'Orne, Normandy. WAR VARIATIONS is a cry, a painful and powerful outpouring of the personal set against the backdrop of an international scene.

Author City: ROME ITA

Amelia Rosselli (1930-1996) was the daughter of a hero of the anti-Mussolini Resistance who was assassinated in Normandy when she was seven years old. Thereafter she spent her life in exile in Europe and in America, losing her mother and never fully recovering from her trauma. She learned French and English in addition to Italian, translated, studied music and wrote poetry characterized by sharp emotion, deep trauma and an ironic regard for "the human spectrum." She published nine collections of verse in her lifetime.