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ABSTRACT
The rich italian historiography related to the most dramatic feature of the seventies – the black and red terrorisms – risks identifiying this decade only as ‘the night of the Republic’. In the same period, on the other hand, another Italy elevated and nourished its democratic conscience, active political participation and civic awereness and achieved significant individual as well collective rights and freedoms. Its protagonists came from the same younger generation of those who lost themselves in ideological extremism, destroying own lives and that of others.
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La ricca storiografia sul volto più drammatico degli anni Settanta – il terrorismo rosso e nero – rischia di identificare questo decennio solo come ‘la notte della Repubblica’. Al contrario nello stesso periodo un’altra Italia cresce in coscienza democratica, in attiva partecipazione politica, in civismo ottenendo più liberta e più diritti individuali e civili. I protagonisti di questi Settanta appartengono alla stessa dell’Italia democratica appartengono alla stessa giovane generazione che si perde invece negli estremismi ideologici, distruggendo la propria e l’altrui esistenza.
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Simona Colarizi
Simona Colarizi, is Emeritus Professor of Contemporary History in the University ‘La Sapienza’ of Rome. The most recent books include: Luigi Barzini. An Italian History (‘Luigi Barzini. Una storia italiana’, Marsilio 2017); The XX Century in Europe (‘Novecento d’Europa’, Laterza 2015); Political History of the Republic. 1943–2006 (‘Storia politica della Repubblica. 1946–2006’, Laterza 2007).