The Italian version of James Mandeld Bob Dylan Biography “Anonymous“The local media is pushing to claim that, unlike the film, Dylan traveled to Italy in 1962 in search of Suz Rotolo – named Selfie Rousseau in the movie and played by Elie Vanning – who left New York to study abroad.
In 1962, Rotolo left the apartment of Greenwich Village where she lived with Dylan and arrived with her mother in Perugia, where she joined the famous Italian city of the Italian for foreigners. By the way, it is the same college attended by Amanda Nox in 2007.
Perugia has recovered from its archive a registration document in the name of Susan Elizabeth Rotolo, and issued a statement in which Professor Sabrina Seatadini claimed that “the love story between Suz and Dylan was full of painful inspections.” Cittadini made some interviews and testimonies that one night in 1962 “a very young man came out of a black taxi” in the center of Corso Garibaldi in Perugia, near the university, “with a bouquet of red roses.” She said, “Bob Dylan came from Rome to Perugia to search for Suza,” who moved to a different title.
Rotolo was seventeen years old when she met Dylan in 1961, a long period of his arrival in New York. A “red diaper child” was self -described, the daughter of two Italian immigrants: Gioachino “PETE”, Rotolo, painter and union organizer, his wife, Mary, editor and column writer in the American edition of the Italian Communist newspaper L. “Al -Wahda.
It is believed that the separation of Rotolo from Dylan, who did not want to go to Italy, has inspired the songs “Tomorrow is a long time”, “Do not think twice, everything is fine” and “Spanish leather shoes”.
After returning from Perugia, the famous Rotolo appeared with Dylan on Greenwich Village Slushy on the cover of his album “The Freewheelin ‘Bob Dylan”.
After their relationship was drifted, as shown in the movie, Rotolo returned to Italy and in 1970 she married Enzo Bartoccioli, an Italian film director she met while a student in Perugia.
Rotolo, who went to become an artist and teacher at the Parsons Design School in New York, died due to lung cancer in 2011 at the age of 67. She survived her husband and son.
