REMEMBERING ANTONIO GRAMSCI
27/04/2021
Antonio Gramsci died on April 27, 1937, but his teachings have never been lost.
So today, we tell you a little curious about this great Sardinian.
Known for his profound culture, journalist, polemicist, writer, unfortunate father, and husband, everything can be said about his relationship with childhood, except that he lived in a world of fairy tales—just the opposite.
He knew a world of turncoats, persecutors of justice, enemies of freedom and justice, factious and perjury, interested only in personal profit and the attainment of power, but he fought tirelessly with his high moral and historical testament of the "Letters from prison" to restore his truth and to leave a memory to his children and everyone, of himself, of his Sardinia and Italy.
In "Letters from prison," Gramsci talked to his children about his childhood experience and how he had dealt with and raised small animals: hawks, cuckoos, hedgehogs, turtles, a snake.
Then these confidences took on the guise of animals and two children, the protagonists of these fairy tales, to read before bed. They tell of hedgehogs hunting for apples, of buckets with crabs and small fish, of battles between crows and owls, of cunning foxes struggling with defenseless peasants and foals, of the game of checkers, of freedom in drawing, of school and of growing children, of men who fall and rise again, and make us understand how important is the study of History and with it of reality and Nature. The story often extends to apologies, alluding to great wisdom, such as that of a man who fell into a deep well and receives no help from anyone, not even from a minister of God, but who relies only on his strength to save himself. "
Source: altritaliani.net
Illustration by Fabrizio Di Palma
