Paolo Alberto Rossi
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Paolo Alberto Rossi | |
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| Born | October 28, 1887 |
| Died | November 2, 1969 (aged 82) |
| Education | University of Rome |
| Occupation | Diplomat |
| Spouse | Giacinta Porfilio |
| Children | 3 |
| Relatives | Almerindo Portfolio, Laurenus Clark Seelye |
Paolo Alberto Rossi (28 October 1887 - 2 November 1969) was an Italian diplomat who experienced the fall of Shanghai during the communist Shanghai Campaign and authored The Communist Conquest of Shanghai: A Warning to the West.[1]
Rossi was born in Rome in 1887.[2] His father, Egisto, was a Tuscan scholar of Sanskrit and his mother was American,[3] whose uncle was Laurenus Clark Seelye, the first president of Smith College. After high school graduation in Mount Vernon, New York, in 1912 Rossi received a law degree from the University of Rome.[4]
Career
Rossi served in the Italian Army as an infantry officer in World War I. He was wounded in the Karst region in southwestern Slovenia. After a brief legal practice in Rome,[4] in 1920 he was nominated and assigned to serve as Italian Vice Consul of New York and then Italian Consul General of Pittsburgh and New Orleans.[2] In the 1930s Rossi served in the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome and the consulates of Aleppo, Smirne and Sarajevo.[2] In 1947 he reopened the Consulate General's office in Marseille.[4]
