approaches the Communists , taking distance from them , as well as criticize them . After two years , in search of truth and political clarification , she wrote to a friend from the time spent in Berlin , a young Italian philosopher she met in the winter of 1932 3 , Eugenio Colorni .
Eugenio invites the young woman for a short vacation in Trieste , where he lives and works as a philosophy teacher in a teaching institute . The friendship there in Trieste , in that spring of 1935 , turns into love and at the end of December of the same year , in Milan , Ursula becomes Mrs . Colorni . Eugenio , militant anti-fascist , director of the Socialist Internal Center , was arrested on September 8 , 1938 . However , there is no evidence to support the hypothesis of Mrs . Colorni ’ s actual involvement in her husband ’ s anti-fascist activities , therefore Ursula is not prosecuted , and when Eugenio , after four months in prison between Varese and Trieste , is sentenced to five years of confinement to be done on the Ventotene island , Ursula was given the permission to follow her husband on the island , since she was as a foreigner with a small child 4 and without any family support .
Ursula settled permanently in Ventotene at the beginning of July 1939 , determined to bring the family unit back together . The other two daughters of the couple , Renata and Eva , are conceived in Ventotene . But , above all , in Ventotene , Ursula ’ s anxiety for political action finds a concrete and definitive form through which to express herself .
3 . The friendship between Ursula and Eugenio had started by chance in Berlin , in the autumn of 1932 , among the silent stalls of the Staatsbibliothek where Ursula , recently enrolled in the philology faculty of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin , went to study Hegel , and Eugenio , a brilliant philosopher with a promising future , trained at the Royal University of Milan following the wise teachings of professors Giuseppe Antonio Borgese and Piero Martinetti , deepened his research on Leibniz . .
4 . Silvia , the eldest , born in Trieste on April 2 , 1937 .
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