cally formed the abandonment of the absolute sovereignty of the nation-states for the European federation . Not having a language , having lost heimat , not having really lived even her Jewishness had made it “ easier for her to be European ”, she writes in her autobiography ( Hirschmann , 1993 ).
Both enter and leave the places of confinement , after Ventotene , in Melfi , Ada in 1942 condemned herself for conspiratorial activity , Ursula to follow her husband , when he was transferred
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there . They are the ones who weave relationships with the Italian anti-fascist conspiracy , of which they had already experienced in different forms , and circulate the Manifesto in Italy . We do not know with what stratagem Ursula ’ s husband left the island ; the exceptional nature of the company also fueled the invention of imaginative hypotheses . From the biographers of Ada Rossi comes the curious image of her who “ sharpened the pencils with which Ernesto copied Manifesto in light paper and with a tiny handwriting ”, which does not contradict the intent to document her contribution which is anything but subordinate . As a matter of fact , in Ada ’ s personality , it is said , the courageous independence of thought and action coexists with the unawareness of her own role :
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