Raditsa, Leo

Leo Ferrero Raditsa (1936-2001) was a teacher, scholar, editor and writer, and a distinguished historian of Ancient History. He wrote criticism, essays, plays, history, novels, poems and was an accomplished painter.

A naturalized United States citizen, Leo was born in Switzerland on March 2, 1936 to Bogdan (Radica) Raditsa and Nina Lombroso Ferrero. His maternal grandfather was the prominent Italian journalist and historian Guglielmo Ferrero, and his grandmother was Gina Lombroso, the daughter of Cesare Lombroso, the renowned Italian criminologist. She was a well-known writer on women issues. Nina's brother, Leo Lombroso Ferrero, was a gifted poet and playwright. The Ferreros were outspoken antifascists who left Italy in 1929. They settled in Switzerland, where Guglielmo Ferrero was professor of Modern European History at the University of Geneva.

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