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"My friend Marina, whose ultra-Fascist mother ended up in the Coltano internment camp, recommends a teacher called Apicella to me for mathematics, and her daughter Agata (a recent graduate) for Greek and Latin. In this way I can kill two birds with one stone; a single return journey across town instead of two represents a great advantage in Rome that summer, where public transport is not yet up and running again. In fact, the long cycle ride from Parioli to Via Morgagni , where the Apicellas live, netted me much more than two birds. What I learned in their house went well beyond mathematics and ancient languages. It is an antifascist family, after all, and their antifascism is much more engagé than in my home. I can’t help smiling when I think how chance – indeed, the suggestion of a Fascist family – has landed me there. Agata later became the mother of the film-maker Nanni Moretti and the literary theorist Franco Moretti; and her sister Olga became the wife of Valentino Gerratana, who, together with Trombadori and Salinari, commanded the PCI’s military forces in Rome during the occupation and went on to edit the works of Gramsci." Luciana Castellina
Posted on: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 13:58:06 +0000

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