Cesare Rossi (21 September 1887, in Pescia – 9 August 1967, in Rome) was an Italian fascist leader who later became estranged from the regime.
Rossi began his political career on the left with the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) and as a writer for various syndicalist journals.
[1] A leading writer for Il Popolo d'Italia, Rossi was recognised as one of Benito Mussolini's closest advisers in the early days of the fascist movement.
[1] Rossi soon gained a reputation for his moderation and was instrumental in the Pact of Pacification, a 1921 agreement that temporarily slowed down the violence of the Blackshirts.
[5] Rossi's rise through the ranks of the fascist state came to an abrupt end in 1924 with the murder of Giacomo Matteotti, after he was accused of being responsible.
[6] The indifference and silence first, and then the ambush organized by De Bono, naturally on your orders, is a gesture that outrages me and frees me from any obligation of generosity.