Il testamento dell’anarchico Serantini

The story of the anarchist Sarantini is also a precious look at the workers' and students' rebellion in one of the crucial cities of the long Italian 1968, and its roots in the heretical Marxist and libertarian cultures of two centuries. A piece of Italy's history in the research of a scholar who was a witness and participant in the reconstructed events. Franco Serantini knew many cells: the orphanage, the college, the reformatory - without any guilt other than being an orphan and poor - up to cell number 7 of the Don Bosco prison in Pisa. Here he died on May 7, 1972. Two days earlier he had been arrested on the edge of an anti-fascist demonstration and massacred by law enforcement officers. He was left to agonize amid the inertia of the magistrate, doctors, nurses, agents and prison officials. Half a century later, this text traces the papers of the courts and the archives of the civil party lawyers and of individuals of good and upright will, whose action was decisive in preventing the documents of a murder from being erased. They are now deposited and can be consulted at the archive of the Pisan Library which is dedicated to the memory of Franco Serantini.