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Article: The postponed revolution: reading Italian insurrectionary leftism as generational conflict.(Contemporary Prose Fiction)(Critical essay)
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- Italica
- Article date:
- September 22, 2006
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The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, president of the Christian Democrat party, is commonly seen as the paradigmatic event in postwar Italy's long and bloody history of insurrectionary violence. Moro was held for several weeks, and eventually shot, by a notorious group of left-wing extremists, the Red Brigades, founded in 1970 by Renato Curcio, Alberto Franceschini, and Margherita Cagol. When Franceschini published his memoirs, Mara Renato ed io, in 1988, he included a chapter titled "Il filo rosso," in which he describes the ties of the Red Brigades to a group of former partisans who had refused, at the end of World War Two, to hand over their weapons to the new ...