I TRY. What remains of Alcide De Gasperi seventy years (too many to remember, too few to forget) after his death?
The review starts from this question “What remains of Alcide – Journey through the memories of the Republic”: a cycle of four appointments – organized by Trentina Alcide De Gasperi Foundation and fromItalian German Historical Institute of the Bruno Kessler Foundation – which will offer just as much different perspectives to reflect on the legacies of Alcide De Gasperi 70 years after his death.
We will leave on Thursday May 2nd at 5pmin the large hall of the Bruno Kessler Foundation in via S. Croce 77, with the meeting “Between removal and celebration” which will feature historians Paolo Pombeni And Maurizio Ridolfi which, in a backwards journey, will lead the participants to find out how De Gasperi’s image has changed that historiography and public celebrations have returned to the country.
“The objective of the exhibition is to make De Gasperi a mirror in which to read the dynamics that accompanied the construction of the identity of our Republic – explain the organizers – and by intercepting the gazes that have fallen on the Trentino statesman in these 70 years we will talk about ourselves, how we remember and forget, how we build collective narratives and myths and how the incense burned on the altar of memory can become fog and accompany the passed into oblivion”.
The series of appointments – all ad Free admission and free while places last (info: [email protected] / 0461314247) and whose participation is recognized for the purposes of updating teaching staff – the May 14th with “Meeting De Gasperi”: an itinerary, proposed by Elena Tonezzer (Trentino Historical Museum Foundation) e Mirco Carrattieri (Liberation Route Italia), to discover how monuments and naming of streets and squares explain to us how and why, 70 years after his death, the statesman entered our daily lives.
The June 5th then it will be the turn of the meeting”The statesman I would like” in which, immersing himself in the multiple forms of mass culture, Maurizio Cau of the Italian German Historical Institute of the Bruno Kessler Foundation and the director of the Trentina Foundation Alcide De Gasperi Marco Odorizzi – with the moderation of Sara Zanatta – they will try to understand how and when De Gasperi became “the statesman” par excellencea, detaching himself from his historical story to become the timeless embodiment of the “good politician”.
The fourth and final meeting “De Gasperi in republican history” – scheduled on June 17th at 5pm in the reception hall of Palazzo Geremia in Trento – will feature the scholar of Christian Democracy and vice-president of the council of ministers Marco Follini and the president of the Trentina Foundation Alcide De Gasperi Giuseppe Tognon which, moderated by the president of the Association of Italian cultural institutes Flavia Piccoli Nardellithey will compare themselves without rhetoric with the actual andpolitical wealth of the statesmanproposing a reflection aimed at recognizing those peculiarities that made De Gasperi not only the emblem of a party, but a true father of the Republic.
