Actuality

Tragedy of Genoa: Statement from Prime Minister Conte
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FROM THE PRESIDENCY OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS

Today the Government, through the competent Directorate of the Ministry of Infrastructure, formally forwarded the information to "Autostrade per l'Italia". letter of dispute which initiates the procedure for terminating the concession.
The Government accuses the concessionaire that he had the obligation to take care of the ordinary and extraordinary maintenance of the A10 motorway, the serious disaster that followed the collapse of the bridge. The concessionaire will have the right to send its counter-arguments within 15 days, without prejudice to the fact that the disaster is an objective and indisputable fact and that the burden of preventing it fell on the concessionaire who was responsible for the maintenance and custody obligations.
News has spread that Autostrade per l'Italia would be willing to rebuild the bridge at its expense. If this proposal is formalized the Government will evaluate it, but not as a counterpart to giving up the voice of all the victims of this enormous tragedy. If this bridge reconstruction initiative is charged to "Autostrade per l'Italia" it will only be as temporary compensation for damage, without prejudice to the wound inflicted on the victims, to their families and to the country is immeasurable and certainly cannot be healed in this way. Read More

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Culture | Non-fiction

Guareschi, del '68 se ne fece un baffo
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Of Marcello Veneziani

Like today (yesterday for those reading, n.d.r.), fifty years ago, in the fateful '68, he went to the other world Giovannino Guareschi. He left the small world that few had described, to reach the big world, the one where that Lord lived who in his House gave advice to one of his fiery dependents on earth, Don Camillo. At least that's what Guareschi says.

He left early, Giovannino, a 60 years, after a troubled life, between concentration camp, prison under fascism and anti-fascism, plus a host of books translated all over the world, of very popular films that represented that fabulous post-war Italy, and adventures in the press, like his impertinent Candide who played a decisive role in the defeat of the social-communist popular front in the 1948 elections.
Giovannino died on 22 July '68 but he had time to write his last Don Camillo dedicated to today's young people. The book was released posthumously and marked the striking contrast between the old communist Peppone (that the anti-communist Guareschi had made sympathetic with his irrepressible humanity), the tough Don Camillo and a young, beardless protester, who was traveling on a motorbike with studded and fringed bags and a black jacket with a skull and the words "Veleno". Which becomes the boy's nickname for Guareschi and also the metaphor of the protest. "The Chinese" also arrive in the town of Brescello and upset the ideological geometries of the Italian-Stalinist Peppone and also displace the religious ones of the parish priest. Guareschi links the protest to the advent of the consumer societyi. For him the antagonism between the two phenomena is only occasional, related, not substantial. Consumerism devours the small ancient world and the old faiths, but he catches Peppone who leaves his bike and rides in a red spider. Consumerism is the habitat of 1968. Read More

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