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Pushing past the night : coming to terms with Italy's terrorist past / Mario Calabresi ; translated by Michael F. Moore ; with an introduction by Roger Cohen.
Van Pelt Library HV8215.M54 C3513 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Calabresi, Mario, 1970-
- Standardized Title:
- Spingendo la notte più in là. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Calabresi, Luigi, 1937-1972--Assassination.
- Calabresi, Luigi.
- Calabresi, Mario, 1970-.
- Calabresi, Luigi, 1937-1972.
- Police chiefs--Italy--Milan--Biography.
- Police chiefs.
- Murder--Italy--History--Case studies.
- Murder.
- Domestic terrorism--Italy--History--20th century.
- Domestic terrorism.
- Calabresi, Mario, 1970---Family.
- Calabresi, Mario.
- Terrorism victims' families--Italy--Milan.
- Terrorism victims' families.
- Political violence.
- History.
- Families.
- Assassination.
- Milan (Italy)--Biography.
- Milan (Italy).
- Political violence--Italy--History--20th century.
- Italy--Politics and government--1945-1976.
- Italy.
- Politics and government.
- Italy--Milan.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 133 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Other Press, [2009]
- Summary:
- December 15, 1969, was the most important day of Mario Calabresi's life, although he would not be born for another year. On that date, the anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli fell to his death from a window at the Milan police headquarters, where he was being questioned about his role in the Piazza Fontana massacre, the most infamous episode of domestic terrorism in Italy.
- Police Inspector Luigi Calabresi, Mario's father, was in the building, though not in the room, at the time of the accident. This didn't stop the rumors that Pinelli had been killed by Calabresi. These suspicions kicked off "a ferocious lynching, albeit in slow motion"---as the Italian paper La Repubblica characterized it---that culminated in the murder of Luigi Calabresi outside his home one morning in 1972. Calabresi left behind his pregnant wife and two young sons.
- In this memoir, Mario Calabresi explores the personal and political fallout of Italy's era of domestic terrorism in a poignant and very personal account. His grief at the murder of his father is balanced by a desire to overcome the divisions that still scar Italy today. This powerful book calls not only for accountability but also for redemption. As Mario Calabresi's mother always told him, you have to look to the future, stake your bets on life, and refuse to be a prisoner of hatred.
- Contents:
- The premonition
- Piazza del Popolo
- A photograph
- The blue Fiat 500
- Graffiti
- The interview
- Capsized
- We have to say good-bye
- The Chamber of Deputies
- A left-wing painter
- We shall love again
- Lost opportunities
- The rules of the kitchen
- Apologies
- Breathe.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9781590513002
- 1590513002
- 9781590513781
- 1590513789
- OCLC:
- 299708138
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