Cesare Pavese: Tu non sai le colline / You don’t know the hills

" every war is a civil war: every fallen man is similar to the one who remains, and he asks them the reason why." Tu non sai le colline Cesare Pavese Tu non sai le collinedove si è sparso il sangue.Tutti quanti fuggimmotutti quanti gettammol’arma e il nome. Una donnaci guardava fuggire.Uno solo di noisi fermò a…Read more Cesare Pavese: Tu non sai le colline / You don’t know the hills

25 Aprile: Alfonso Gatto & Lorenzo Viale

Today’s post includes one poem and two letters, the first by a poet who fought and lived to see Italy free from fascism, the second by a young man who fought and died for us to have it… #Lestweforget (although, at times, I believe we have forgotten): 25 Aprile Alfonso Gatto La chiusa…Read more 25 Aprile: Alfonso Gatto & Lorenzo Viale

Piero Calamandrei: Contro ogni ritorno / Against any return

April 25 is almost here...#lestweforget CONTRO OGNI RITORNO Piero Calamandrei Inermi borgate dell’alpeasilo di rifugiatiprese d’assalto coi lanciafiammearsi vivi nel rogo dei casalii bambini avvinghiati alle madrifosse notturne scavatedagli assassini in fugaper nascondervi stragi di trucidati innocentiquesto vi riuscì.S. Terenzio Bergiola Zeri VincaForno Mommio Traverde S. Anna S. Leonardoscrivete questi nomison…Read more Piero Calamandrei: Contro ogni ritorno / Against any return

Liberation Day, #25aprile: Ungaretti, Pertini, Spagnolli, Lussu, Biagi, Sciascia, Fallaci, Calamandrei, Ginzburg, Fenoglio, Bobbio, Bocca.

“Fascism is not an opinion: it’s a crime.”- Sandro Pertini On April 25, 1945, the Allied troops liberated Italy from the Nazi occupation and fascism. After September 1943, partisan Resistance groups were active throughout northern and much of central Italy. They were most active in summer in the hills and mountains, but also in many…Read more Liberation Day, #25aprile: Ungaretti, Pertini, Spagnolli, Lussu, Biagi, Sciascia, Fallaci, Calamandrei, Ginzburg, Fenoglio, Bobbio, Bocca.