Thursday, January 17, 2019. From 6:00 pm To 8:00 pm. Entrance: Free. Location: Italian Cultural Institute of New York - 686 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10065. Book now! The two Amelia Rosselli whose lives and work will be discussed and celebrated were, respectively, the mother and the daughter of the anti-Fascist leader Carlo Rosselli, founder of one of the earliest anti-Fascist movements, "Giustizia e Libertà".

Mussolini had identified Rosselli as the regime's most dangerous political opponent. After evading custody in the island of Lipari, Carlo Rosselli reached Paris where was joined by his wife Marion Cave, a British political activist. In 1930 their daughter Amelia was born in exile, seven years before the brutal murder of her father and uncle.