Nando dalla Chiesa at the Booksellers’ Fair: “Women give more space to feeling”

Bergamo. Courageous, stubborn women, witnesses of justice. Women who, like protagonists of a Greek tragedy, with their voices and firm decisions are the light and engine of the fight against the mafia. And, where the narrative we are used to does not highlight their importance, relegating female figures to mere rarities, there are those who instead stop and tell them. Because he knew them, or was simply fascinated by them; because remaining indifferent in the face of certain stories is an impossible task. Because he thought that doing so was a matter of justice, the most just.

Nando from the Churchsociologist, sits on a chair on the stage of the Auditorium in Piazza Libertà next to Daniele RocchettiACLI provincial president of Bergamo, who introduces him not without abandoning himself to the intensity of having him as a guest for a program meeting of the Booksellers’ Fair. She has so much desire to talk about them and to give all those women the consideration they deserve that she mentions them one by one, she praises their ideas, intentions and deeds and finds in each one more reason, always one more reason.

In 2006, by the public Church The rebels. Stories of women who challenged the mafia for loveto whose pages he dedicates the extraordinary lives of Francesca Serio, Felicia Impastato, Saveria Antiochia, Michela Buscemi, Rita Atria And Rita Borsellino. In 2024, he feels the need for a new edition with an additional chapter reserved for Lea Garofalowhich arrived in Milan from Petilia di Policastro and in whose history the individual rebellion of twentieth-century women and the collective, social one that developed in the 2000s are intertwined.

A change in style from the first to the second edition is certainly evident, dictated by the twenty years of things seen and experienced. However, what does not change, and will never change, is the firm desire to give a voice to those who, too often, have not had one. The author does not hesitate to define himself as a man who writes about women and he does so wonderfully. Because, as he put it, “the woman gives more space to feeling”. And from the Church you give more space to women.