Antonello Trombadori

An intimate friend of Renato Guttuso and Corrado Cagli, he collaborated with them in his youth on a series of important magazines, including La Ruota, Primato, Città, Corrente and Cinema.

Between the years of 1937 and 1940 he participated in a secret propaganda effort to convince Italian youth to abandon fascism.

Due to his family’s celebrity, Benito Mussolini offered him absolution in return for a public apology and admission of tort.

In July 1943 he escaped from prison and in collaboration with Giorgio Amendola, he attempted to defend Rome from the Nazis and was subsequently arrested by the Germans in February 1944.

In 1945 he presented Renato Guttuso’s album of drawings, Gott mit uns[1] and in the same year helped Roberto Rossellini and Carlo Lizzani in filming the masterpiece Roma, città aperta (Rome, Open City).