It will be presented on Friday, at 11.30, at Palazzo Angeli, home of the law department, the book by Gianpaolo Romanato, “Giacomo Matteotti. A different Italian.”
It’s about the new edition of the biography that the historian dedicated to Matteotti, enriched and deepened on the occasion of the centenary of the death of the Polesine parliamentarian. Discussions with the author will be Daniele Negri and Paolo Veronesi, professors – respectively – of criminal procedural law and constitutional law at the University of Ferrara.
As Romanato writes, we now know everything about the assassination of the socialist martyr, many other aspects of his short but intense life are much less known: for example, the dramatic situation in which Polesine found itself which welcomed his birth in Fratta, the traits of his family of origin and the one he gave birth to with his beloved Velia, the persecutions of which he was constantly a victim, how he matured his political vocation, his fearless battles in the municipal and provincial councils in which he was elected, in the same bodies of his party and then in Parliament, how his political thought progressively evolved, finally arriving at an increasingly solid “revolutionary reformism” and aware that the centrality of parliament and the juridical dimension were the indispensable tools for building a truly democratic and more just society.
The volume reminds us that Matteotti graduated in law at a very young age and was able to dedicate himself to his subsequent academic career in a bumpy way, due to his human and political parable, continuing his beloved studies in criminal law disciplines through the publication of extremely interesting writings that influenced the conception of democracy and the rule of law developed by the socialist parliamentarian, killed by fascists on 10 June 1924: an “announced death” of which this book meticulously dissects the entire background.
Before the presentation of the book, at 11am, the many activities at the center of the project will be illustrated “Justice and contemporary society – In the footsteps of Giacomo Matteotti, criminal lawyer”, which was admitted in recent days to the financing of the Segre law for the celebration of the figure of Giacomo Matteotti on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of his death.
The initiative, an integral part of the program of the Polesine Provincial Committee for the 1924-2024 celebrations, was born from the law department of the University of Ferrara.
