Paolo Alberto Rossi | |
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| Born | October 28, 1887 |
| Died | November 2, 1969 (aged 82) |
| Education | University of Rome |
| Occupation | Diplomat |
| Spouse(s) | Giacinta Porfilio |
| Children | 3 |
| Relatives | Almerindo Portfolio, Laurenus Clark Seelye |
Paolo Alberto Rossi (28 October 1887 - 2 November 1969) was an Italian diplomat who experienced the fall of Shanghai during the communist Shanghai Campaign and authored The Communist Conquest of Shanghai: A Warning to the West. [1]
Rossi was born in Rome in 1887. [2] His father, Egisto, was a Tuscan scholar of Sanskrit and his mother was American, [3] whose uncle was Laurenus Clark Seelye, the first president of Smith College. After high school graduation in Mount Vernon, New York, in 1912 Rossi received a law degree from the University of Rome. [4]
Rossi served in the Italian Army as an infantry officer in World War I. He was wounded in the Karst region in southwestern Slovenia. After a brief legal practice in Rome, [4] in 1920 he was nominated and assigned to serve as Italian Vice Consul of New York and then Italian Consul General of Pittsburgh and New Orleans. [2] In the 1930s Rossi served in the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome and the consulates of Aleppo, Smirne and Sarajevo. [2] In 1947 he reopened the Consulate General's office in Marseille. [4]
Between 1948 and 1952 Rossi was the Plenipotentiary Minister of the Italian Consulate of Shanghai. [2] He witnessed the fall of Shanghai by the communists led by Mao Tse-tung. In 1970, Rossi published a book about it: “The Communist Conquest of Shanghai;: A Warning to the West”. [1]
In Shanghai, Rossi was known to be a "very cultured man, that spoke english splendidly". [3] He participated in the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China, hosted at the Broadway Mansions Hotel. [5] [1]
At the conclusion of his diplomatic career, Rossi opened a law practice in New York to serve Italian immigrants. [4]
Rossi married Giacinta Porfilio, sister of Italian American entrepreneur Almerindo Portfolio and had three sons. [4] Rossi wrote a biography in Italian about his brother in law, titled La Vita di Almerindo Portfolio, (1966). [4]
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