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2026-05-02 17:29 UTC

I have been reading “La Resistenza delle Donne” by the writer and journalist Benedetta Tobagi that won the Premio Campiello 2023 (the top literary prize in Italy, first one by Primo Levi). It a gripping account of the role that #women played in the Italian resistance to the Fascist regime. It is grim but extraordinarily uplifting reading. It includes photos of a couple of friends of my grandmother’s who were #partisans. I know little of her activities as she never spoke of it to anyone. 1/n

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@sellathechemist@mastodon.social 2026-05-02 17:33

But the book makes reference to the first film that tried to depict a woman of the resistance, "Libera, Amore mio" (Libera, my love). The heroine is called Libera (“She is free”, played by Claudia Cardinale) a woman who breaks every rules and speaks her mind at every opportunity. Occasionally a bit melodramatic it is a fabulous, almost forgotten film made by Mauro Bolognini in 1975 a date that speaks volumes about how long it for Italian attitudes about women to shift. 2/n

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