Some scholars launch an appeal to affix a plaque to the Quisisana clinic in Rome where Antonio Gramsci died on 27 April 1937.
The intellectual, one of the founders of the PCI and an anti-fascist, detained by the regime, spent the last two years of his life in the structure because he was afflicted by a serious illness.
According to the promoters of the initiative, the ownership of Quisisana, which became a private healthcare facility in the 1980s, has so far denied any possibility. «Our request - we read in the appeal - would do honor to the clinic, given the posthumous glory that Gramsci enjoys worldwide, and which contributes to making Italy a major center of modern political thought. This is also why the tendency to marginalize or even erase the anti-fascist cultures and origins of the Republic must be fought. We therefore appeal to the competent institutions and "non-indifferent" people to underline with their intervention, or with their signature, the protest against the clinic's choice to deny a memory of the last painful days of Antonio Gramsci". The appeal has so far registered around 1,300 participants.
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