He was a close friend of Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, later Pope Pius X. Amadeo would further be made a Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy.

However, she was soon attracted by socialist ideas and escaped her parents' home at age 18 to marry Cesare Sarfatti, a Jewish lawyer from Padua.

Present at these gatherings were Mussolini, Massimo Bontempelli, Ada Negri, and the sculptors Medardo Rosso and Arturo Martini.

Their eldest son, Robert, enlisted in the Italian army during World War I, and was killed in action on Monte Baldo in January 1918, aged 18.

[1] Personal friend and private collector of the right-wing avanguardist Umberto Boccioni,[5] in 1911 Sarfatti met Benito Mussolini (three years her junior) and started a relationship with him.

Sarfatti is memorialized in Guido Cadorin frescoes in the (now called) Grand Hotel Palace, Via Veneto No.

[8] In 1922, the group Novecento was enlarged to Anselmo Bucci, Leonardo Dudreville, Achille Funi, Gian Emilio Malerba, Pietro Marussig, Ubaldo Oppi, and Mario Sironi.

Her children who remained in Italy survived the war, but her sister with her husband were extradited to the fascist forces and perished on the way to Auschwitz.

She wrote a column, and that was how they prepared the United States people for the concept of entering the war on the side of Mussolini, I suppose.