1. "Introduzione al 'Marx'," Filmcritica , nos. 289-90 (November-December 1978), 366. All further page references to this article appear in the text. [BACK]

2. Interview with Giovanna Di Bernardo, "Roberto Rossellini Talks About Marx, Freud, and Jesus," Cinéaste , 8, no. 1 (1977), 33. [BACK]

3. The comet that appears in the first scene of the screenplay, as the young Marx is about to go off to the university, is defended at great length by Rossellini in the Écran interview. His fear was that it would seem too spectacular, too grand a "portent" of things to come, but decided to include it anyway. Ironically, Rossellini told an interviewer that he would not include in his film the fact that Marx slept with his maid when his wife was sick because it was "so irrelevant": what counted were Marx's ideas. ( R.R.: Roberto Rossellini , ed. Bruno, p. 131). [BACK]

4. This list comes from Bendicò, "L'abbecedario di Rossellini," 362. [BACK]

5. Interview, Écran 77 , no. 60 (July 15, 1977), 46. [BACK]

6. Quoted in Virgilio Fantuzzi, "L'ultimo Rossellini," Rivista del cinematografo , 50, nos. 7-8 (July-August 1977), 292. [BACK]

7. Ibid. [BACK]

8. The unfinished article is included in Trasatti, Rossellini e la televisione , pp. 219-23. [BACK]