Background
She was the daughter of Marion Cave, an English political activist, and Carlo Rosselli, who was a hero of the Italian anti-Fascist Resistance—founder, with his brother Nello, of the liberal socialist movement "Justice and Liberty.".
She was the daughter of Marion Cave, an English political activist, and Carlo Rosselli, who was a hero of the Italian anti-Fascist Resistance—founder, with his brother Nello, of the liberal socialist movement "Justice and Liberty.".
The family then moved between England and the United States, where Rosselli was educated.
Rosselli returned to Italy in 1946, eventually settling in Rome. She spent her life studying composition, music, and ethnomusicology and taking part in the cultural life of postwar Italy as a poet and literary translator. Her extraordinary, highly experimental literary output includes verse and prose in English and French as well as Italian.
She committed suicide in 1996 by jumping from her fifth floor apartment near Rome"s Piazza Navona.
Rosselli has been translated into English by Lucia Re, Jennifer Scappettone, Diana Thow, Deborah Woodard, Paul Vangelisti, and Cristina Viti. Locomotrix: Selected Poetry and Prose of Amelia Rosselli, edited and translated by Jennifer Scappettone (University of Chicago Press, 2012)
The Dragonfly, translated by Giuseppe Leporace & Deborah Woodard (Chelsea Editions, 2010)
War Variations, translated by Lucia Re and Paul Vangelisti (Green Integer, 2003)
Sleep: Poesie in Inglese, translated by Amelia Rosselli (Garzanti, 1992)
Primi scritti (1952-1963) (1980)
Variazioni belliche (1964)
Serie ospedaliera (1969)
Documento (1976)
Impromptu (1981)
Appunti sparsi e persi (1966–1977) (1983)
Louisiana libellula (1985)
Antologia poetica (1987)
Sleep.
Poesie in inglese (1992)
Prime prose italiane (1954)
Nota (1967–1968)
Diario ottuso (1968)
Spazi metrici (1964)
Una scrittura plurale. Saggi e interventi critici (2004, posthumous).
