Ceremonies to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of Emilio Lussu in Rome, Cagliari and Aosta. He will be remembered today, in the Senate, at 3 pm in the Sala Zuccari. The meeting, born on the initiative of the senators of the Democratic Party Marco Meloni and Francesco Verducci, will be attended by the president of the Region Alessandra Todde, Tommaso Lussu, of the association "Casa Lussu" and Valdo Spini, president of the Fondazione Circolo Fratelli Rosselli". Speeches by jurists Aldo Berlinguer and Gianmario Demuro and historians Giuseppina Fois and Agostino Bistarelli are also planned. The conference will be coordinated by Carla Bassu, professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Sassari. The proceedings will be broadcast live streaming on the WebTv and YouTube channel of the Senate.
The Regional Council of Valle d'Aosta today names the council committee room after Emilio Lussu. The ceremony, in video link with the council chamber of Sardinia, is scheduled for 10:30 during the conference organized in Cagliari on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of his death. All this for the contribution that the Cavaliere dei Rossomori offered to the birth of the Valle d'Aosta Statute . After greetings from resident Piero Comandini, the proceedings will be opened by Giuseppe Caboni, president of the Emilio and Joyce Lussu Institute. The reports will be given by the historian and jurist Italo Birocchi, by Emma Biolchini, director of the newspaper Liceo Dettori of Cagliari, by Monica Grossi, Superintendent of Archives of Sardinia, and by Giovanna Granata, professor of Library Science and curator of a study on the library of Emilio Lussu.
Tomorrow, in the covered promenade of the Bastione San Remy, in Cagliari, another event in the name of remembrance: at 10.30 the human and political biography of Lussu , after the greetings of the mayor Massimo Zedda and the councilor for Culture Maria Francesca Chiappe, will be retraced by historians and scholars with the musical accompaniment of the group of the artist Ambra Pintore.
In Armungia, last March 1st, the first act of the celebrations with the conference organized by the municipal administration and by associations and movements that draw impetus from the ideas of the author of “March on Rome and its surroundings”.
The protagonist
Emilio Lussu was born in Armungia in 1890. An interventionist and officer in the First World War, in 1919 he was one of the founders of the Partito Sardo d'Azione in Oristano . A member of parliament in 1921 and 1924, he took part in the Aventine secession. He opposed fascism. Arrested in 1926 and deported to Lipari. From the island-confinement he escaped in 1929 with Nitti and Rosselli, with whom he created the Giustizia e Libertà movement in Paris. Between fronts and frontiers, together with his companion Joyce, he fought against Nazi-fascism. He was minister for Post-war Assistance in the Parri government and a member of parliament at the Constituent Assembly. He joined the PSI in 1947, and in 1964 he joined the PSIUP. Among his works: La catena, 1945; Marcia su Roma e dintorni, 1945; A Year on the Plateau, 1945; Clandestine Diplomacy, 1956; On the Action Party and the Others, 1968; The Defense of Rome, published posthumously in 1987. He died in Rome on March 5, 1975 .