Three quarters of a century between autonomy, social transformations and modernization of the island, in the context of the Republic and Italian regionalism. The scientific and cultural project of the Antonio Segni Foundation draws an unprecedented balance of the 75 years of the Regional Council of Sardinia. After the presentation in Turin on the occasion of the XXXVII edition of the International Book Fair, the conference room of the Sardinia Foundation in Sassari hosts the presentation of the volume “The Regional Council of Sardinia”.

Edited by professors Antonello Mattone and Salvatore Mura , published by the publishing house Ilisso of Nuoro, the volume is divided into six parts, enjoys the contribution of over thirty authors, scholars and professionals with different scientific sensibilities and attitudes that enrich a work never realized before, the last chapter of the greatest secular history of Sardinian autonomy.

The book is ideally placed in continuity with the Acta Curiarum Regni Sardiniae, the series promoted by the Regional Council of Sardinia dedicated to the ancient Sardinian Parliaments . In the overview of studies on the history of contemporary Sardinia, there was not yet a summary work available on the Regional Council that could constitute a sort of balance of the activity carried out in over seventy years of autonomy. This volume is indirectly linked to the particularly felt need for a relaunch of the representative institution that in recent years, perhaps even in the last thirty years, has been in crisis, so much so that it is difficult to see a new season on the horizon.

The work – of almost 400 pages – aims to represent an opportunity for reflection and comparison , on the regional legislative assembly which, despite its contradictions, still constitutes an acquired and indispensable heritage of the Sardinian people.