Franceschini's grandmother had been a leader of the peasant leagues, his father a worker and anti-fascist who had been deported to Auschwitz.
==1970: prva generacija Rdečih brigad==Rdeče brigade so ustanovili Renato Curcio in Margherita (Mara) Cagol, ki sta se spoznala kot študenta na Univerzi v Trentu in kasneje poročila, ter Alberto Franceschini avgusta 1970.