Rocco Scotellaro

Rocco Scotellaro (died 1953) was born on 19 April 1923 in Tricarico, in Lucania, the son of a cobbler and a seamstress. He studied law in Rome, Naples and Bari without completing his studies, and joined the Socialist Party in December 1943. Elected mayor of Tricarico in 1946, at the age of twenty-three, he was arrested in February 1950 on a charge that ended in an acquittal, the judges speaking of political vengeance, and then left his town. He died of a heart attack in Portici on 15 December 1953, at the age of thirty.

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• PoetryThe Dawn Is Always NewÈ fatto giornoRocco Scotellaro · 1954Literature