Ada Gobetti (1902 – 1968) was an Italian teacher, journalist and anti-fascist leader. She was born Ada Prospero and later remarried to become Ada Marchesini.

Biography

With her husband Piero Gobetti she contributed to several antifascist magazines, including '' La Rivoluzione Liberale'' which was suppressed in the 1925 by the fascist dictatorship. Her husband was beaten by fascist squads and forced to go into exile in Paris, where he died of bronchitis in 1926.

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encouraged her to resume work. From 1928 she taught English language and literature and translated English texts. In 1937 she married Ettore Marchesini. She helped the Biennio Rosso, kickstarted in Giustizia e Libertà and co-founded the Partito d'Azione. During the war Gobetti kept a diary that could have caused her death. To encrypt it she wrote it in English. This was the basis of her biography. She kept safe-houses during the war.The woman who invented the Italian resistance
Ian Thomson, The Spectator, Retrieved 29 March 2017 She was a leader in the

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and she co-founded the female group of partigiane, ''Gruppi di difesa della donna''. After the end of the war, the CLN made her vice-mayor of Turin. In 1945 she co-founded the Women's International Democratic Federation. In 1946 she lost the election for vice mayor. She directed her energy to child development and translated 26 letters that were designed to send to first time parents based on Benjamin Spock's philosophy and they had been written by Dr Loyd Rowland and published by the Louisiana Society for Mental Health. Gobetti wanted children to be brought up differently to how they had been under the Italian fascists. In the 1950s she contributed to multiple left-wing and pedagogy publications, including '' L'Unità'', ''

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'' and ''Educazione Democratica''. In 1956 she joined the Italian Communist Party.

Death and legacy

She died in 1968 after a life dedicated to democracy and women's rights.A Life of Resistance
, boydellandbrewer.com, Retrieved 24 March 2017 On 2 October 1978 she was posthumously awarded the Silver Medal of Military Valour for her role in the anti-fascist resistance movement. In the Florestano Vancini's film The Assassination of Matteotti (1973), Ada Gobetti is played by Manuela Kustermann.

Works

;In Italian * ''Alessandro Pope. Il poeta del razionalismo settecentesco'', Bari, Laterza, 1943 * ''Dai quattro ai sedici anni. Guida ai libri per ragazzi'', Torino, Edizioni del Giornale dei genitori, 1960 * ''Cinque bambini e tre mondi''. Torino, SAIE, 1953 * ''Non lasciamoli soli. Consigli ai genitori per l'educazione dei figli'', Torino, La cittadella, 1958 * ''Diario partigiano''. Torino, Einaudi, 1956, 1972 e 1996 * ''Storia del gallo Sebastiano ovverosia Il tredicesimo uovo'', Torino, Einaudi, 1963 * ''Vivere insieme. Corso di educazione civica'', Torino, Loescher, 1967 * ''Educare per emancipare. Scritti pedagogici 1953-1968'', Manduria, Lacaita, 1982 * Piero Gobetti, Ada Gobetti. ''Nella tua breve esistenza. Lettere 1918-1926'', Torino, Einaudi, 1991 ;In English *

References

Bibliography

* Mezzosecolo, 7, Annali 1987-1989, Centro Studi Piero Gobetti. Numero monografico sulla vita e l'opera di Ada Prospero Marchesini Gobetti. * Emmanuela Banfo e Piera Egidi Bouchard ''Ada Gobetti e i suoi cinque talenti, ''Torino, Claudiana, 2014,

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RAI {{DEFAULTSORT:Gobetti, Ada 1902 births 1968 deaths Journalists from Turin Action Party (Italy) politicians Italian Communist Party politicians Italian socialist feminists Italian women journalists Italian feminists Italian resistance movement members 20th-century Italian translators Politicians from Turin 20th-century Italian women politicians 20th-century Italian women writers