Editing Roberto Rossellini (section)

== Early life ==
Rossellini was born in Rome. His mother, Elettra ([[née]] Bellan), was a housewife born in [[Rovigo]], [[Veneto]], and his father, Angiolo Giuseppe "Peppino" Rossellini, who owned a construction firm,<ref name="google">{{cite book|title=My method: writings and interviews|author1=Rossellini, R.|author2=Aprà, A.|date=1992|publisher=Marsilio Publishers|isbn=9780941419642|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eY5ZAAAAMAAJ|access-date=7 December 2014}}</ref> was born in Rome from a family originally from [[Pisa]], [[Tuscany]]. <ref name="nytimes">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/g/gallagher-rossellini.html|title=The Adventures of Roberto Rossellini|newspaper=nytimes.com|access-date=7 December 2014}}</ref> He lived on the Via Ludovisi, where [[Benito Mussolini]] had{{what?|date=March 2025}} his first Roman hotel in 1922 when [[Fascism]] obtained power in Italy.<ref>Serri, Mirella ''From the Odeon to the Odeon: The Experience of Roberto Rossellini from Fascism to Antifascism'', Kenneth Lloyd-Jones (translator) ''[[Telos (journal)|Telos]]'' Vol. 139 (Summer 2007): pp. 70–78.</ref>

Rossellini's father built the first cinema in Rome{{when?|date=March 2025}}, the "Barberini", a theatre where movies could be projected, granting his son an unlimited free pass; the young Rossellini started frequenting the cinema at an early age. When his father died, he worked in film sound-making and for a certain time, he experienced all the ancillary jobs related to the creation of a film, gaining competence in each field. Rossellini had a younger brother, [[Renzo Rossellini (composer)|Renzo]], who later scored many of his films.

Although he was not personally religious,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vg-hortus.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=138:la-visione-della-realtost-bellica-italiana-nel-cinema&catid=13:studi-storici&Itemid=15|title=La visione della realtà post-bellica italiana nel cinema|last=(h)ortus|website=Hortus - Rivista di architettura}}</ref> he had a strong interest in [[Christian values]] in the contemporary world;<ref name="Bondanella, Peter 1991">Bondanella, Peter. The Films of Roberto Rossellini. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. 16–17. Print.</ref> he appreciated [[Catholic ethics]] and religious sentiment—things which he saw as being neglected in the materialist world.<ref name="Bondanella, Peter 1991"/>