Not the prisoner, not the martyr: Aldo Moro returns to being simply Aldo Moro. With his humanity, his curiosity, his fragilities.
This is the soul of the new book by Angelo Picariello, a journalist for “Avvenire”, who wrote “Let's free Moro from the Moro case. The legacy of a great statesman”, a work that goes beyond the tragic narrative of the kidnapping to give us a new and at times surprising portrait of a man who never stopped believing in dialogue and in the power of politics as an act of faith.
The volume will be presented on Monday 5 May, at 6 pm, in the Aula Magna of the Pontifical Theological Faculty of Sardinia, in Cagliari (via Sanjust 13).
After greetings from the bishop of Iglesias and dean of the Faculty, Mario Farci, and the president of the Meic, Mario Girau, the author will dialogue with the historian Luca Lecis, the journalist Franco Siddi and the mayor of Iglesias Mauro Usai, moderated by Cristiano Erriu of the Aldo Moro Study Center.
Through documents, direct testimonies and new interpretations, Picariello reconstructs Moro's entire career: from the Constituent Assembly to his parliamentary commitment, from his university teaching - never abandoned - to his personal ties, such as his friendship with Giovanni Battista Montini, the future Paul VI.
What emerges is the face of a teacher capable of listening to his students to the point of sharing with them the simplest daily life , a politician deeply attentive to youthful ferments, curious about everything that was born in the Seventies, even in the less aligned worlds. A figure that tragedy has crystallized and that is now returned to its irreducible complexity.