The memory of the Resistance, dedicated to its great Sardinian exponent, is more alive than ever: the preview for the twelfth edition of the Emilio Lussu Prize Festival will arrive in Cagliari on Friday the 27th , choosing the ANPI headquarters at Via Piceno 5 for the presentation of " La staffetta senza nome ," co-written by Jessica Chia and the little-known but emblematic partisan Sandra Gilardelli . From 6 pm, Chia will talk about the book, in conversation with Lorella Villa .

Published last year by Solferino , the autobiographical text begins when Gilardelli, now a centenarian, was just eighteen years old : born into an anti-fascist family and raised in an Italy devastated by war, bombs and displacement, the fortuitous encounter with the partisan galaxy pushed her to join the Resistance in Pian Nava, on Lake Maggiore.

First a trainee nurse, then a "courier," she was tasked with carrying secret messages to the National Liberation Committee , playing a silent and essential role central to the fight against Nazism, yet remaining marginalized from the official narrative. Interweaving her own story with that of the legendary "Lieutenant Mosca," the protagonist recounts a life devoted to liberation, amidst secrecy, painful loved ones, and difficult choices, lucidly and intimately capturing the "silent resistance" fought by the over one hundred thousand women of the partisan movement , whose contribution was largely ignored or undervalued.

The Emilio Lussu Prize, always attentive to uniting historical memory, civic commitment and contemporary storytelling, will offer a meeting on March 27 that will not only be an editorial presentation, but a moment of listening and collective reflection , bringing together different generations to question the present through stories, rekindling a light .