The meetings with the author of provincial ANPI and Grottarossa start again: the summer review will be an opportunity for cultural study through the authors’ stories and investigations.
We will discover the connection between English espionage and Mussolini in the first appointment on 21 June, followed by a pacifist partisan novel by Emanuele Bellintani, the dimension of memory with Davide Passoni, the testimonies of historical episodes on the Covignano hill (Alessandro Buda Harly), up to get to the stories of those who rejected the laws of the regime in the universities (national Anpi) on the occasion of the traditional anti-fascist Pastasciutta.
Grottarossa welcomes guests during the Friday aperitif time, a moment dedicated to meeting friends with whom to share current events, reflections and sociability.
On Friday 21 June, at 7pm, at the Grottarossa social centre, the ANPI provincial committee presents the meeting with Alfio Bernabei, ANPI London volunteer.
Giacomo Matteotti, whose centenary of his tragic death marks the centenary of his death, passes through the pages of this gripping novel set in the summer of 1922 when the first protest against fascism broke out in England and was echoed internationally. A little-known story that could have changed the fate of Italy, headed towards the abyss of dictatorship.
Rimini also figures in “The Summer Before Tomorrow” by Alfio Bernabei, set in the summer of 1922, a few months after the March on Rome, when the first international protest against fascism broke out in Wales.
The arrival across the Channel of a ship with a crew made up entirely of fascists takes a dramatic turn when it goes from the boycott of the Welsh dockers to an escalation that makes the leaders of the fascist party tremble. Among the participants in the protest we also find Giuseppe Giulietti from Rimini who, after having suffered an attempt on his life, said that he was “the first Matteotti except by miracle”.
A little-known story that could have changed the fate of Italy, headed towards the abyss of dictatorship.
Alfio Bernabei, writer and journalist, worked for the BBC and Channel 4 and was a London correspondent for “l’Unità” for many years. Articles by him have appeared in various Italian and English newspapers, including «L’Espresso», «Panorama»,
«Il Fatto Daily» and «History Today». Among his historical publications are the volume Exiles and Italian emigrants in the United Kingdom 1920-1940 (Mursia 1997) and the essay Fascism and anti-fascism in London’s Little Italy (Pacini Editore 2021). For English television he directed the documentary Dangerous Characters, which won the “Best Research” award at the Festival dei Popoli in Florence.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/100-years-ago-why-was-giacomo-matteotti-murdered-mussolinis-secret-police
