Mary Teresa Pezzati Rotolo Bowes was an American writer and political activist.
14 Facts About Mary Rotolo
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Suze Rotolo was one of Bob Dylan's early girlfriends in New York City.
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Mary Rotolo Teresa Pezzati was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, on January 28,1910, the daughter of Italian immigrants Sisto Pezzati and his wife Cesarina.
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Mary Rotolo's older brother was Peter S "Pietro" Pezzati, who was a noted American portrait painter.
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Mary Rotolo first married Dominic Testa in Boston, Massachusetts, on March 28,1933.
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Mary Rotolo and her husband were friends with American writer Charles Flato who, it was discovered only in the 1990s, was a Soviet spy.
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Joachim Mary Rotolo died of a heart attack on February 18,1958, before Suze met and lived with Bob Dylan in the early 1960s.
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Mary Rotolo predeceased her husband and died at Norwood Hospital in Norwood, Massachusetts, on September 27,1990, from lung cancer.
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Mary Rotolo lived on the top floor of an apartment building on Sheridan Square and treated me like I had the clap.
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Mary Rotolo thought I had a nameless way of life and would never be able to support anybody, but I think it went much deeper than that.
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Mary Rotolo was always trying to goad me into some kind of argument.
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Mary Rotolo stared squarely into my eyes like she was staring at some distant, visible object and said to me, 'Do me a favor, don't think when I'm around.
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Mary Rotolo did everything in her power to keep us apart, but we went on seeing each other anyway.
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Mary Pezzati's concerns as to Dylan's character were realized to a certain extent when Suze Rotolo discovered that he was not only conducting an affair with Joan Baez, but with a married woman, Sara Lownds and expressed a desire to continue his relationship with Rotolo.