AVEZZANO – Tuesday 23 April at 5.30 pm, space for the first official presentation of the volume published by Ianieri Edizioni “Cento metri dicatena” by Pietrantonio Palladini with his son Pietrantonio Lanzi Palladiniat the Mondadori bookshop in Avezzano (L’Aquila), via Monsignor Bagnoli 86. There will also be speakers Stefano PallottaPresident of the Order of Journalists of Abruzzo who wrote the preface, and the historian Marco Patricelli. The event was moderated by the journalist from Pescara Alessandra Renzetti.
Born in Pescina (L’Aquila) on 7 May 1898, Pietrantonio Palladini died in 1981, he was a lawyer and socialist, active from a young age in the peasant leagues, after the First World War, in which he participated as a volunteer, he resumed his activity politics. Palladini – it is explained in a press release – who had hosted the widow Matteotti in Avezzano, after the killing of the socialist martyr he rejected the provocations of the local fascists, but in 1927 he was arrested and disbarred from the register of lawyers.
THE FULL STATEMENT
From then on there was a succession of arrests and stays in confinement until, after the armistice, the socialist lawyer actively participated in the fight against the Germans, managing, among other things, to save around thirty patriots from deportation to Germany. After the Liberation he led the fight for agrarian reform in Fucino. Elected provincial councilor, Palladini chaired the local committee against the war in Vietnam. He was also regional president of Anppia. On the struggles of the Abruzzo peasants he left the book One Hundred Meters of Chains in which the struggle of the working class against the fascist violence subservient to feudal and agrarian domination is present; violence of the first hour that Palladini defines as “confused, chaotic squad action that suddenly flared up under the pressure of easy instincts, and armed the hand of small groups without art or part”.
As Pallotta explains, it is a struggle which had, according to the author, “such an intensity of human values and such an authentic call to social justice as to inspire, in reality and in its ideal origins, the novel “Fontamara di Ignazio Silone who, while reproducing the sad condition of the farmers, intended to denounce the inhuman and intolerable injustice that they wanted to impose by all means”.
A class struggle that is written with the color of the blood shed in Trasacco, Pescina, Cerchio, Aielli and Celano even in the aftermath of the Republic. Epic of humble people, farmers, labourers, women, socialists, anarchists, communists, Catholics of the popular party and three Marsicans who would influence national thought, Ignazio Silone, Camillo Corradini And Benedetto Croce.
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