"Io chiedo di parlare
non prudentemente,
né imprudentemente,
ma parlamentarmente!"
Giacomo Matteotti

A day of study and research curated by the Azienda Speciale Palaexpo-Roma and the Archivio Storico del Senato della Repubblica

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.

The day will be broken down into three distinct events: a conference in the morning and a round table in the afternoon, followed by the screening of Florestano Vancini’s film Il delitto Matteotti.

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 day will wind up with a screening of Florenstano Vancini’s film Il delitto Matteotti, introduced by Concetto Vecchio, Laura Matteotti and Gloria Vancini.

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.