"I have a bad temper, there's no doubt about it. […] I'm just the way I am, open with friends and opponents." Sandro Pertini
The historic professor returns to the Collegio Nuovo on Tuesday 28 October (21 pm, in the classroom and on Zoom) Stefano Caretti, who spoke in 2024 to illustrate the figure of Giacomo Matteotti, on the centenary of his assassination by what Sandro Pertini, a leading figure of the Resistance, described in a leaflet that cost him prison as the "barbaric fascist domination".
And right up Sandro Pertini The evening will focus on the presentation of the book co-edited by Caretti with Marzio Breda (Sandro Pertini A certain idea of socialism. The story of the "president of the Italians" told by himself. Solferino 2025) and the screening of a film illustrating the personal and political journey of the exiled, clandestine, and imprisoned fighter, his contacts with Turati, Rosselli, and Gramsci; his profound faith in freedom, which cannot exist without social justice; his roles after the Liberation and the birth of the Republic (he participated in the Constituent Assembly), his leadership of "Avanti!" and "Lavoro Nuovo," up until his rise to the highest offices of the state, during crucial periods. He was elected Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies in 1968 and, ten years later—in the aftermath of the assassination of Christian Democrat President Aldo Moro by the Red Brigades—President of the Republic—"of all Italians," he would specify in his inaugural speech—gaining a broad consensus, the broadest ever recorded.
The meeting will be held in person (Aula Magna del Collegio Nuovo, via Abbiategrasso 404, Pavia) and remotely. Registration is required by October 27th for in-person attendance; by October 28th at 6:30 PM for those wishing to join remotely.
The initiative falls within the recognized training activities, subject to confirmation by the individual interested College member of the CCUM, and is in the process of being recognized as part of the IUSS extra-class training activity.
