Abstract

Amelia Rosselli’s letters to Mario Trevi, held at the Centro Manoscritti of the University of Pavia and at Emanuele Trevi’s family archive, shed new light on Rosselli’s first decade in Rome, on her relationship with the intellectual milieu of the city as well as on her multilingual writing. As a pupil of the Jungian analyst Ernst Bernhard and animator of the journal Montaggio, Trevi is the ideal companion for Rosselli in the crucial years of her active engagement with poetry, politics, and philosophy. The fifty-one letters, which can be dated to 1956-1960, provide an insight into a longer friendship, which presumably began in the early 1950s and lasted until Rosselli’s death in 1996.