Eugenio Colorni and Ursula Hirschmann with their first daughter Silvia in Ventotene . Colorni was murdered by fascists in Rome in 1944 . Hirschmann married Altiero Spinelli the following year . | © 2021 · Fondazione Rossi-Salvemini
Eugenio Colorni e Ursula Hirschmann con la primogenita Silvia a Ventotene . Colorni fu assassinato dai fascisti a Roma nel 1944 . Hirschmann sposò Altiero Spinelli l ’ anno successivo . | © 2021 · Fondazione Rossi-Salvemini
very refined ... the agreement with her could only be created on intellectual affinity ”, recalled her daughter Renata Colorni in 2019 . So it was for the short years of love between her and Eugenio Colorni , so for the long and intense relationship with Altiero Spinelli ; alongside them an ideal and political maturation took place which distanced her from the initial Marxism . She had a generosity of feelings that made her want and raise six daughters . One of Ursula ’ s singularities is the inseparable relationship between the vocation for the “ feminine ” - love and motherhood , a spontaneously “ different life ” - and the struggle for universal values , which is solidified in the commitment to the Federalist Movement , to assume in maturity a new character : the choice of a common front of women . Among her papers remains the testimony of the versatility of a complex personality , on both intellectual and action levels ( Boccanfuso , 2017 ).
Ada goes beyond the female stereotype of the time in choosing her studies : she graduates in mathematics and adds to her passion for science the anti-fascist choice , all-encompassing from the meeting with Ernesto Rossi , whom she married in 1931 . In the substantial nucleus of letters from Rossi ’ s prison , there are a thousand traces of the intense dialogue between them throughout the Thirties , testimony of the process of elaboration of ideas and political planning . The network of clandestine relations that Ada manages , an invaluable link between prison and free anti-fascists ,
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