Shedding light on painful memories and still controversial aspects of Italian history and some of the main issues of the second half of the twentieth century. These are the themes of the book " L'Italia di Piazza Fontana " by Davide Conti which will be presented , in the presence of the author, tomorrow, Wednesday 29 November, in Cagliari at 6pm, in the headquarters of the "Antonio Gramsci" Association, in via Baudi of Vesme, 69 .
The initiative, introduced and coordinated by Laura Stochino and promoted by Issasco and the "Antonio Gramsci" association, with the collaboration of the "Miele Amaro" bookshop.
Conti is a historian, consultant to the Bologna Prosecutor's Office (investigation into the massacre of 2 August 1980), former consultant to the Brescia Prosecutor's Office (investigation into the massacre of 28 May 1974). He was a consultant to the Historical Archive of the Senate of the Republic and author of the research on the War of Liberation in Rome 1943-1944 which led to the awarding of the Gold Medal for Military Valor to the city of Rome by the President of the Republic.
The author of the volume explains that «the tool for restoring some of the main nodes of the Italian crisis, of its anomalies and of the political-social complexities that determined them could only be a polyphonic story of multiple sources and above all of multiple voices : from the workers to industrialists, from students to policemen; from political leaders to labourers; from emigrants to soldiers. Essential observation points that explain the very limits of the governance of historical processes. Going through ruptures and continuities, twists and transformations, crises and modernity, this is the country that reaches December 12, 1969, the day in which the Senate approves the Workers' Statute while the Piazza Fontana massacre is being prepared in Milan. The two-faced Janus of national history."