Antonello Trombadori (April 24, 1917,

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– January 19, 1993, Rome) was an Italian politician,

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and

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. Born in

into a family of artists (his father

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was a painter) Trombadori lived a happy life in the

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studio-home of his city, coming into contact with numerous intellectuals of the era. An intimate friend of

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and

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, he collaborated with them in his youth on a series of important magazines, including ''La Ruota'', '' Primato'', ''Città'', ''Corrente'' and ''Cinema''. Between the years of 1937 and 1940 he participated in a secret propaganda effort to convince Italian youth to abandon

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. He was arrested in 1941 and brought in front of the Special Tribunal, where he was found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment. Due to his family’s celebrity,

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offered him absolution in return for a public apology and admission of tort. Trombadori refused and was consequentially jailed. On July, 1943 he escaped from prison and in collaboration with

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, he attempted to defend Rome from the

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and was subsequently arrested by the

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on February, 1944. He managed to escape in August of the same year. Soon after the Liberation of Rome he organized an exhibition titled “L’arte contro la barbarie rt against barbarism��. In 1945 he presented

’s album of drawings, ''

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'' and in the same year helped

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and

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in filming the masterpiece Roma, città aperta (

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). Trombadori was an influential member of the

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(PCI), becoming a member of its Central Committee. In 1967 he was envoyee to

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for the party's journal, ''

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''. He collaborated also with ''

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''. Trombadori was elected four times in the

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for PCI, but in 1993 he declared himself "No more a Communist" and a voter of the

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. Amongst his most important critical contributions were his introductions to the retrospective publications ''Donghi'' (

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) and ''Scipione'' ( Gino Bonichi; both of 1985); ''

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'' (1986) and ''Roma appena ieri (Rome Just Yesterday)'' (1987). He also served as editor of the catalogue of

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, the seat of the Chamber of Deputies. He married Fulvia Trozzi, daughter of the famous lawyer and socialist parliamentary Mario Trozzi and had two children: Duccio and Lucilla, and later have three granddaughters, Cecilia (1976), Hortense (1979) and Charlotte (1991).

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