To mark the hundredth anniversary of the murder of Giacomo Matteotti, the Palazzo Esposizioni Roma will be hosting a day of study and research exploring some of the most dramatic moments in our national history. The initiative sets out in particular to conduct an in-depth probe into the events, stretching from the murder of Don Giovanni Minzoni in August 1923 to the kidnapping and murder of Matteotti in June 1924, that plunged Italy into the iron grip of the Fascist dictatorship.

In the morning, five scholars will be analyzing from their different standpoints the critical process that was to overwhelm liberal Italy and that came to a head with the murders of Don Minzoni and Matteotti. In addition to an analysis of the three areas most directly impacted by Fascist aggression – liberal Italy, the Catholic world and the Socialist world – some of the papers from the trials triggered by the murders (both from ordinary lawcourts and from the Senate, transformed for the occasion into a High Court of Justice) will be shown to the public and interpreted for the very first time.

In the afternoon, a round table entitled Violence, Politics, Culture, Religion, Society. Liberal Italy’s crisis will be coordinated by Jolanda Bufalini, with a panel comprising representatives of the Gramsci, Matteotti and Sturzo Foundations and Professor Patrizia Guarnieri.

The event follows in the footsteps of the play Giacomo. Un intervento d’arte drammatica in ambito politico (Monday 10 June at Rome’s Teatro Argentina) and sets out to offer a comprehensive historical-scientific and artistic-recreative vision of the period as a whole and of the leading figures involved.

Programme

9:30 am

Introduction by Marco Delogu, President of the Azienda Speciale Palaexpo

10:00 am – 1:00 pm

Stefano Caretti, Professor of Contemporary History, Università di Siena
Le mal-aimé

Luigi Giorgi, Coordinator General of the Istituto Luigi Sturzo
Don Minzoni: The Popular Party and the Catholic world in the face of Fascism

Giuseppe Cacciaguerra, Colonel in the Italian Army, Editor-in-Chief of the “Rivista Militare”
Don Giovanni Minzoni, Military Chaplain

Antonella Meniconi, Lecturer in the History of Political Institutions, Sapienza Università di Roma
The Italian magistrature faced with the political crimes of Fascism

Giampiero Buonomo, Archivio Storico del Senato della Repubblica
The Matteotti trial papers

4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

round table Violence, Politics, Culture, Religion, Society. Liberal Italy’s crisis
moderator Jolanda Bufalini

panel
Francesco Giasi, Director of the Fondazione Gramsci
Patrizia Guarnieri, Lecturer in Contemporary History, Università di Firenze
Alberto Aghemo, President of the Fondazione Matteotti
Agostino Giovagnoli, Professor Emeritus of Contemporary History, Università Cattolica, Milan.

Informazioni

Admission free with reservation

Palazzo Esposizioni Roma - Sala Auditorium

Admission via steps in via Milano 9a