Lettere alla famiglia. Raccolta di lettere del periodo precedente la liberazione.
Roma: rizzigraf, 1979. First Printing. Wraps. 8vo, wraps, very good, light wear, soil and tanning. 92 pp, a few illustrated. Italian communist and activist, 1911-1977. Cesare Colombo was born in Turin on 18 December 1911, son of Eugenio and Rita Falco. On 30 June 1931 he was arrested along with two other Communists accused of being responsible for the reorganization and propaganda of the Communist Party. Referred to the Special Court for the Defense of the State, Cesare Colombo was acquitted for insufficient evidence and released from prison on 13 November 1931. On 23 March 1934 he was arrested again for communist organization in contact with Justice and Freedom; Cesare Colombo is assigned to police confinement in Ponza for two years. In 1935 he took part in a collective agitation and in May of the same year he was sentenced to 10 months of arrest; during the period of detention Cesare Colombo behaves badly and makes contacts with other communists. After his release, which took place on November 21, 1936, around mid-September 1937 he expatriated clandestinely in France; subsequently he participates in the Spanish civil war by enlisting in the voluntary anti-Franco formations. In 1939 he returned to France and was interned in the Gurs and Vernet camps; the Ministry of the Interior requests the repatriation of Cesare Colombo. Back in Italy, he was arrested on November 20, 1941 and assigned to police confinement in Ventotene for 5 years. With the fall of the fascist regime he was freed in August 1943; in the same month he engages in the political struggle as secretary of Giovanni Roveda at the General Confederation of Labour. After 8 September 1943 he took part in the armed resistance in the Lazio Regional Command in the Garibaldi Brigades; on 30 January 1944 Cesare Colombo was arrested by the Germans during a round-up and taken to prison in L'Aquila. On February 23, 1944 he managed to escape thanks to an aerial bombardment in his confinement area. After the war, he collaborated from 1945 to 1947 with the Central Press and Propaganda Commission of the Italian Communist Party; from 1948 onwards, Cesare Colombo also served on the Finance and Organization Commission of the same party. From 1956 until 1977 he rearranged the archives of the Italian Communist Party at the Gramsci Institute in Rome. He died in Rome on April 27, 1977. Very good. Item #H27624
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