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the document , an attribution is impossible . If in not even one line of the texts signed by Spinelli , Rossi and Colorni between 1941 and 1943 there was the hand of the two women , the time of the internal dialectic of the two families , in presence or from afar , is part of the path of thought that converged in the thesis . Although of different origin , it is legitimate to speak of their preexisting pro-European vocation . Throughout the Thirties , Ada ’ s house in Bergamo had been a school of anti-fascism for a group of young people , who would join the Resistance in 1943 , in the formation of Justice and Freedom . In Rossi ’ s letters to his wife during the period of detention at Regina Coeli , common readings are cited , rich in “ teachings [...] to better put into concrete our ideas on the perspective of a federalist organization of Europe ” ( Franzinelli , 2001 ).
Of Ursula , the “ enlightenment , violent and definitive ” that had made her abandon the Marxism and communism of the years in Berlin and her exile in Paris , between 1933 and 1935 , was the result of that impatient “ waiting for the anti-Hitler revolution ” Berliners had not wanted to try . The philosophical and political dialogue with Ernesto ’ s secular liberal socialism allowed her to reach a balance , but by her , Ernesto was led to move more quickly towards action ; in emphatic language , she wrote to him that it was time to “ put life at the service of history ”. It is not possible to go beyond a “ circumstantial paradigm ”, but we seem to understand that her exceptional experience as a Jew and dissident , in the Berlin of the dark moments of the Reichstag fire , and then of deracinée in radi-
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