The journey of Emilio Lussu. From Armungia to the trenches of the First World War, to Sardinianism, to anti-fascism, up to the Constituent Assembly. Thought and action. "A man dies whom Italy desperately needs today," wrote Alessandro Galante Garrone, after the death of the Cavaliere dei Rossomori in March fifty years ago.
On the fiftieth anniversary of his death, the Sardinian Institute for the History of Anti-Fascism and Contemporary Society (Issasco) organized a full day of analysis and reflection on various aspects of Lussi's biography on Friday, October 24, at the State Archives (Via Gallura 2), Cagliari.
Speakers include writer Silvia Ballestra (who has written two books on the life of Joyce Lussu, Emilio's partner, "The Olive Tree and the Graft"), anthropologist Antonio Fanelli, historian Costantino Di Sante, Italian scholar Alice Cencetti, literary historian Marino Biondi, and Enrico Trogu, director of the State Archives. Walter Falgio, president of Issasco, will present unpublished papers held by Antonio Lussu, who was very close to Emilio. The event begins at 9:00 a.m. and resumes at 3:30 p.m. The event is dedicated to Valerio Strinati, a longtime parliamentary advisor to the Senate and coordinator of cultural events at Palazzo Madama, who studied Lussu's thought and, with Antonio Fanelli, unearthed a previously unpublished document concerning the political leader of Armungia for the Ernesto De Martino Institute.
