Renato Paresce: A Life Woven Through Art and Exile Renato Paresce, a name perhaps less familiar than some of his contemporaries, nevertheless represents a fascinating and quietly powerful voice within the early 20th-century art world. Born in Carouge, Switzerland, in 1886, into a family steeped in intellectual and political currents – his father a socialist activist from Palermo and his mother a Russian businesswoman’s daughter – Pare…