[3] Following the rise to power of Benito Mussolini, the couple left Italy in 1923, initially moving to Belgium.

[3] A son, Ferrero, was born in 1926 and the family subsequently moved to France, initially settling in Marseilles before relocating to Paris.

[3] Following her release, Bei resumed Communist Party activities and was part of the resistance to the Italian Social Republic in Rome.

Following the 1948 elections she was appointed to the Senate as a 'Senator-by-right', a position reserved for members of the Constituent Assembly who had been jailed for five or more years, or had held office before Mussolini came to power.

[3] She successfully ran as a Communist Party candidate for the Chamber of Deputies in Ancona in the 1953 elections and was re-elected in 1958, serving until 1963.