Rome: the new library for young people dedicated to Joyce Lussu

«What will 2000 bring us? Perhaps we will be able to defuse all the bombs, and free ourselves from all the Bibles in the light of common sense; perhaps we will be able to drink the water of the rivers; and every Eve will happily bite, together with her Adam, juicy apples without chemical additives or cesium 136 or plutonium 239, without danger of being expelled from paradise." The life of Joyce Lussu Salvadori, writer, poet and partisan, was interrupted in 1998, but her thoughts, like those of her companion Emilio, continue to cross time, useful for anyone who wants to treasure them. The municipality of Rome dedicated a library to Joyce. The best way to remember her, with many volumes expressing knowledge and memories handed down.

The space of young people

The new kingdom of books was inaugurated in via Costantino, in the San Paolo district. Mayor Roberto Gualtieri participated in the event. The newly created library, which is aimed in particular at the very young and young public, also due to the proximity of the Roma Tre university, is housed on the ground floor of a new residential complex. It covers an area of over 400 square meters and offers, already available for loan, around 6,000 volumes, with a maximum capacity of 9,000, with particular attention to twentieth-century politics and history, comics and children's literature and children with a section dedicated to the national project “Born to Read”. For young people there are of course books by Joyce and Emilio. She is always on the front line against totalitarianism, a forerunner of many battles for peace, for ecology, for a more just society. He fought strenuously «the oldest and most stabilized of colonialisms, that of men over women. I was irreducibly convinced that women did not belong in the rear of history, but in the front line." Now she is inside this new creature, a library for her in one of the most characteristic neighborhoods of Rome.