Eugenio Colorni

Eugenio Colorni (22 April 1909 – 28 May 1944) was an Italian philosopher and anti-fascist activist.

Life Born in Milan on 22 April 1909, Colorni taught philosophy at the University of Trieste, and was active in the anti-fascist Giustizia e Libertà movement. Colorni was one of the promoters of the Ventotene Manifesto and an early instigator of the European Federalist Movement. In the mid-1930s, he was closely associated with Lelio Basso and others. On 9 September 1938 he and Dino Philipson were arrested in Trieste for their anti-fascist political activity and their Jewish background. He was imprisoned in the Ventotene prison, then transferred to Melfi. He escaped to Rome in the spring of 1943, where he edited and released the Ventotene Manifesto through the socialist underground newspaper Avanti!, but he was killed in Rome by a Nazi ambush on the Piazza Bologna on 28 May 1944, one week before the Allies arrived. who dedicated his book Exit, Voice, and Loyalty to Colorni's memory. He had three daughters by Ursula: Silvia, Renata, and Eva. His youngest daughter Eva married Indian economist Amartya Sen in 1978 and produced two children prior to her death seven years later.

Works L'estetica di Benedetto Croce: studio critico, 1932 (ed.) Leibniz, La Monadologia, 1935 Leibniz e il misticismo, 1938 'Filosofia e scienza', Analysis, 1947 'Apologo', Sigma, 1947 'I'dialoghi di Commodo', Sigma, 1949 'Critica filosofia e fisica teoria', Sigma, 1948 Scritt, Florence: La Nuova Italia, 1975