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

Liliana Segre: Giorno della memoria /Holocaust remembrance day 2024

"Cultivating Memory is still today a precious vaccine against indifference, and it helps to remember, in this world so full of injustice and suffering, that each and every one of us has a conscience and can use it." -Liliana Segre LILIANA SEGRE:TEMO DI VIVERE ABBASTANZA PER VEDERE COSE CHE PENSAVO LA STORIA AVESSE DEFINITIVAMENTE BOCCIATO,…Read more Liliana Segre: Giorno della memoria /Holocaust remembrance day 2024

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.