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Who killed them? And why?

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  April 28, 1945 , Giulino di Mezzegra , in the Province of Como, Italy. In a place so marginal to be almost invisible, there dies, after having been captured while he was fleeing and convicted without a trial, Benito Mussolini . And with him, Claretta Petacci . There was no order to shoot Benito Mussolini and his ministers. So, who did really kill him? A dialog with Luciano Garibaldi. From Pangea,  rivista avventuriera di cultura e idee. Traduzione di Leonardo Pavese About that day, oh what a paradox, the only certain thing is that it is not certain what you, certainly, will find in history books. That is, that the one who killed Il Duce was “ Colonel Valerio ,” an alias that can be traced back to Walter Audisio , an accountant from Alessandria, later a representative and a Senator of the Republic in communist garb. One could say that what matters are the outcomes and not the means. But it is not true: legends are built on the bodies of leaders. The identity of a nation i...
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Italian Album

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     Every now and then, I find beautiful and interesting historical pictures of Italian aircraft and the people around them, probably rarely seen in the Anglosphere.      I hope you will find them interesting too.      Your comments will be greatly appreciated.        Thank you.      Rome, Centocelle Airport (now closed), April 15, 1909. The Wright brothers were in Italy to show their airplane and hopefully win over more clients. The first airplane to fly in Italy had been Delagrange’s Voisin, on May 25,1908.    1919. The Royal Army wants to contribute to the development of air transportation. A SVA (Savoia Verduzio Ansaldo) of the 66th Fighter Squadriglia of the Italian Royal Army is loading the mail for the Pisa, Piacenza, Milan, Turin postal route.           The Caproni Ca.1 (Ca.300 HP) three-engine airplane was a former...
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HYPÉRION

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     The formula of the Strategy of Tension is a concept that was invented (interestingly, not in Italy), to describe the terrible years, between the late 1960s and the end of the 1980s, during which Italy was bloodied by mass murders carried out by bombings, kidnappings and assassinations for ideological reasons.      According to the ones who coined that definition, the plan, attributed to the Far Right, was to create a climate of terror in Italy to justify the establishment of an authoritarian government and keep the Left away from the levers of power.      In the galaxy of terrorist groups active during that period, a five-pointed star became the emblem that identified the B.R.—the Brigate Rosse, or Red Brigades. The Red Brigades were a terrorist organization born from the loins of Italian communism and the remnants of the World War II Italian resistance. Over time, the group mutated and was infiltrated by foreign actors who steered it to...
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