Edmondo Rossoni

Edmondo Rossoni (1884-June 8, 1965), Italian Fascist. Born in Tresigallo, a small town in the province of Ferrara, in 1884 to a working class family, Rossoni was imprisoned in 1908 for his revolutionary activities as a syndicalist. Leaving Italy for the United States, he worked in socialist organizations there before editing the nationalist newspaper La Tribuna, which was renamed L'Italia Nostra. A renegade from socialism, Rossoni joined the Fascists in 1921. After the March on Rome, he continued his political activities before becoming undersecretary to the President of the Fascist Grand Council from 1932 to 1935. He served as Italian Minister of Agriculture and Forestry from 1935 to 1939. In this capacity, he ordered the replanning and reconstruction of his native town of Tresigallo along rational lines, intending to transform it into a "new town" of Italy.

Sources

• Tutti Gli Uomini del Duce (article in Italian; contains image of Rossoni)
• Tinghino, John J., Edmondo Rossoni: From Revolutionary Syndicalism to Fascism (New York: Peter Lang, 1990).