Cezaro Rossetti (1901 –8 May 1950) was a Scottish

Esperanto Esperanto ( or ) is the world's most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Created by the Warsaw-based ophthalmologist L. L. Zamenhof in 1887, it was intended to be a universal second language for international communi ...

writer. Of Italian-Swiss derivation, he was born in

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and lived in Britain. Together with his younger brother,

Reto Rossetti Reto Rossetti (11 April 1909 – 20 September 1994) was a poet and an Esperantist professor. He was Italian-Swiss and retained his nationality, although he lived all his life in Britain. His professional career as a teacher in art colleges culmina ...

, he learned Esperanto in 1928. He studied in

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as a restaurant manager, worked as a cook, briefly as a peddler, and afterwards as a

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at fairs. Cezaro Rossetti's novel '' Kredu min, sinjorino!'' (''Believe me, Ma'am!''), written at his brother's instigation and reflecting in part his own life experiences, has been translated into Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, and English. In 2013 the Milan Esperanto Club prepared a translation into Italian, which was then published by the Italian Esperanto Federation.

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The first version of this article was based on a translation of the corresponding article in the Esperanto Wikipedia, with additional information from the external page at esperanto.net indicated below.

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Short bio with photo.

Sperto saĝon akrigas. a review of the Rossetti brothers
by

Baldur Ragnarsson Baldur Ragnarsson (25 August 1930 – 25 December 2018) was an Icelandic poet and author of Esperanto works. He was a teacher and a superintendent of schools in Iceland. Esperanto Baldur learned Esperanto at school in 1949 and was active in ...

, originally published in '' Juna Amiko''. 1901 births 1950 deaths Scottish novelists Writers of Esperanto literature Writers from Glasgow People of Swiss-Italian descent Scottish people of Swiss descent Scottish Esperantists 20th-century British novelists {{Esperanto-stub