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Emilio Sereni (13 August 1907, Rome – 20 March 1977, Rome) was an Italian writer, politician and historian.
Biography
Born into a Jewish family of anti-fascist intellectuals, Sereni graduated from the Liceo Terenzio Mamiani in Rome. Brother of the Zionist and socialist Enzo Sereni, co-founder of the kibbutz Givat Brenner, and of Enrico Sereni, a scientist linked to the anti-fascist movement Giustizia e Libertà, who committed suicide at a young age.
Amnestied in 1935, Sereni fled to Paris with his wife Xenia Silberberg, known by the name of Marina, and their daughter Lea; there, he was responsible for cultural work and served as editor-in-chief of the magazines Stato Operaio and La voce degli italiani. After returning to Italy and once again being discovered in 1943, he was sentenced to 18 years for "subversive association". A year later Sereni managed to escape and settled in Milan, where the party assigned him the task of directing the office of agitation and propaganda.
A polyglot, Sereni knew German, English, French, Russian, Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Japanese, and several dead cuneiform languages such as Akkadian, Sumerian and Hittite. Among his theoretical and historical works are Il capitalismo nelle campagne ("Capitalism in the Countryside"), Il Mezzogiorno all'opposizione ("Mezzogiorno in the Opposition"), La questione agraria nella rinascita nazionale italiana ("The Agrarian Question in the Italian National Rebirth") and La rivoluzione italiana ("The Italian Revolution"); altogether, his bibliography contains 1071 writings, the first dating back to 1930. Sereni donated his archive to the Alcide Cervi Institute in Gattatico, of which he was a founder.
Together with his wife Xenia Silberberg, Sereni was the father of the writer Clara Sereni. His daughter narrated Sereni's political and family history in the historical novel Il gioco dei regni ("The Play of Kingdoms"), published by Giunti in 1993.
