This essay traces the biographical and political trajectory of Luigi Frausin. In association with Natale Kolarič, he was a prominent communist leader in the Venezia Giulia region during the Mussolinian Ventennio. From his experience as antagonist to fascist
squads in the Twenties, through his position in the Muggia’s town council and his movements in Europe in order to escape the Italian police, until his capture and imprisonment, he played a pivotal role in the opposition to the regime. Frausin profile, here portrayed thanks to a vast range of secondary sources and a wealth of unpublished archival documents, offers a vantage point from which to observe and throw new light on broader political contexts in a transnational perspective.
