Memory and testimony:Terrorist attacks in Italy

Journal title RIVISTA SPERIMENTALE DI FRENIATRIA
Author/s Manlio Milani, Susanna Vezzadini
Publishing Year 2021 Issue 2021/1
Language Italian Pages 14 P. 105-118 File size 179 KB
DOI 10.3280/RSF2021-001006
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The article focuses on the topic of memory, its private and public dimensions, in order to stress the importance of testimony as an act of public commitment and civil responsibility. In this perspective the contribution presents as well an interview to Mr. Manlio Milani, who survived the terroristic attack in 1974 in Brescia, at piazza della Loggia, where nevertheless he lost his wife and some other friends. The value of the public testimony is then considered with regard to the notions of acknowledgement, justice and its relation with truth.

Keywords: Memory and testimony, responsibility, acknowledgement, reconciliation.

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Manlio Milani, Susanna Vezzadini, Memoria e testimonianza: le stragi del terrorismo in Italia in "RIVISTA SPERIMENTALE DI FRENIATRIA" 1/2021, pp 105-118, DOI: 10.3280/RSF2021-001006