Read freely, read everyone. After the successful expedition of the small and peaceful army of readers, Tuscany still talks about itself at the Turin Book Fair, where the Region is present with its own stand and with many initiatives to support reading and the book supply chain, launched in within the States General of Culture in collaboration with the Culture Commission, the Council and the Executive.
The President of the Region, visiting the stand today, said he was proud of the creativity with which Tuscany has been able to show itself at its best, with the most original products of its publishing. And it could only be like this for a region that has always seen publishing as an important driver of development, identity and love for culture.
Among the initiatives scheduled today is also the one dedicated to the centenary of the death of Giacomo Matteotti, with the presentation of Aldo Cazzullo’s book “Giacomo Matteotti, portrait for images”. The event, organized by the Regional Council and Council together with Pisa University Press-University of Pisa, was an opportunity for a dialogue between present and past.
The analysis that the journalist and writer makes of the murderer Matteotti is, according to the President of the Region, a lucid reading and, in perspective, capable of stimulating attention also on current events. In this analysis, the direct responsibility of the fascists under Mussolini’s direct orders in the murder and the precise desire to attack the reformists, whose ideals were considered dangerous obstacles to the affirmation of a dictatorship, clearly emerges. Thus, the same hand will later strike Giovanni Amendola and Carlo Rosselli.
Also present was the president of the Culture Commission of the Regional Council, who together with the Council organized the presentation of the book and who expressed her satisfaction for a moment of reflection on an episode of our history which, as Cazzullo explains, incredibly does not seem to exist still a shared memory, so much so that it was not possible to put a plaque on the walls of Matteotti’s house. An important event, therefore, according to the president of the Commission, not only from a literary but also a civil point of view.
