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Aldo Moro
(1916-78)
Italian politician
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Italian Perspectives 23

Legenda: Oxford, 2012
£45.00 ($89.50 US)  Hardback  204pp
ISBN: 978-1-907975-27-1

The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Christian Democrat politician, Aldo Moro, marked the watershed of Italy’s experience of political violence in the period known as the ‘years of lead’ (1969-c.1983). This uniquely interdisciplinary volume explores the evolving legacy of Moro’s death in the Italian cultural imaginary, from the late 1970s to the present. Bringing a wide range of critical perspectives to bear, interventions by experts in the fields of political science, social anthropology, philosophy, and cultural critique elicit new understandings of the events of 1978 and explain their significance and relevance to present-day Italian culture and society.

Ruth Glynn is Senior Lecturer in Italian at the University of Bristol. Giancarlo Lombardi is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at College of Staten Island and Graduate Center, CUNY.

With the contributions:

Ruth Glynn, Giancarlo Lombardi — Introduction: Remembering Aldo Moro
David Moss — Prelude: ‘A Long Preparation for Dying’? The Life of Aldo Moro, 1916–1978
Robin Wagner-Pacifici — Aldo Moro and the Tragic Afterlife of a Melodrama
David Moss — Lost Leaders: The Deaths of James Cook and Aldo Moro Compared
Ellen Nerenberg — Doxa, Orthodox, Paradox, Heterodox, Oxymoron: Aldo Moro’s Lettere dalla prigione del popolo
Ruth Glynn — Moro as Figure of Speech: The Displaced Confessions of the Women of the Brigate Rosse
Gius Gargiulo — Moro, Morucci, Moretti: Oxymoron and the Prison of Political Language
Giuseppina Mecchia — Moro’s Body between Enlightenment and Postmodernism: Terror, Murder, and Meaning in Jean Baudrillard and Leonardo Sciascia
Nicoletta Marini Maio — Unbury that Body: The Tragic Palinode of a Generation in Marco Baliani’s Corpo di stato
Isabella Pezzini — Imago Moro: Medi-a-(c)tion on Aldo Moro
Alan O’Leary — Locations of Moro: The Kidnap in the Cinema
Giancarlo Lombardi — Fictions: The Moro Affaire in Primetime Drama