Cezaro Rossetti (1901 –8 May 1950) was a Scottish

Esperanto Esperanto ( or ) is the world's most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Created by the Warsaw-based ophthalmologist L. L. Zamenhof in 1887, it was intended to be a universal second language for international communi ...

writer. Of Italian-Swiss derivation, he was born in

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and lived in Britain. Together with his younger brother,

Reto Rossetti Reto Rossetti (11 April 1909 – 20 September 1994) was a poet and an Esperantist professor. He was Italian-Swiss and retained his nationality, although he lived all his life in Britain. His professional career as a teacher in art colleges culmina ...

, he learned Esperanto in 1928. He studied in

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as a restaurant manager, worked as a cook, briefly as a peddler, and afterwards as a hawker at fairs. Cezaro Rossetti's novel ''

Kredu min, sinjorino! ''Kredu min, Sinjorino!'' (Believe me, Madam!) is an Esperanto-language novel by Cezaro Rossetti. It is listed in William Auld's Basic Esperanto Reading List and was published for the first time in 1950, the same year in which Rossetti died. ...

'' (''Believe me, Ma'am!''), written at his brother's instigation and reflecting in part his own life experiences, has been translated into Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, and English. In 2013 the Milan Esperanto Club prepared a translation into Italian, which was then published by the Italian Esperanto Federation.

References

The first version of this article was based on a translation of the corresponding article in the Esperanto Wikipedia, with additional information from the external page at esperanto.net indicated below.

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Short bio with photo.

Sperto saĝon akrigas. a review of the Rossetti brothers
by Baldur Ragnarsson, originally published in ''

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''. 1901 births 1950 deaths Scottish novelists Writers of Esperanto literature Writers from Glasgow People of Swiss-Italian descent Scottish people of Swiss descent Scottish Esperantists 20th-century British novelists {{Esperanto-stub