Life of Enrico Berlinguer

This book is above all an analysis of Berlinguer's activity as the top leader of the largest Western Communist party, and how the PCI played a central role in the political events of our country. Precisely because of this, it can also be said that basically this of Fiori is a history of the PCI of those years, and if you want a history of Italy of those years as well.
Walter Veltroni

One will continue to discuss Berlinguer's politics at length, with passion and disparity of opinion; but one fact is certain: the country would need men of his mold today more than ever.
Eugenio Scalfari

Enrico Berlinguer was an absolute protagonist of Italian political life during an eventful 15-year period, from 1969 to 1984. An age that opened with the "hot autumn," continued with the explosion of red and black terrorism, the great electoral successes of the PCI, national solidarity and the kidnapping of Aldo Moro, and closed at the end with the rupture of union unity and the clash with Craxi's Psi. In this biography,Giuseppe Fiori tells us about those difficult years of republican Italy, the complex separation from the USSR of the Communist Party, the emergence of the moral question. But also the whole story of a man who left his mark for the recognized value of his human quality: a shy, strict, consistent man, jealous of his privacy, attached to his Sardinia, to Sassari, to Stintino. One hundred years after his birth, a passionate portrait of an unforgettable and unforgettable protagonist of Italian political life.

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Publication date: 05.05.2022
Publisher: Laterza

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