In the Discussions section, Rossana Rossanda’s autobiographical book, La ragazza del secolo scorso (The Girl from the Last Century, Torino 2006) is the subject of a wide-ranging debate. The contributions of Giovanni Falaschi, Aldo Agosti, Simonetta Soldani and Stuart Woolf show how this very successful book can be read in very different keys, not simply as the autobiography of the intellectual itinerary within and then outside the Italian Communist Party, but as a deep and original reflection on the relationship between history and memory.