ALDO MORO
Aldo Moro was born in 1916 in Maglie, near Lecce, in the Apulia region, into a family from Ugento. His father, Renato Moro, was a school supervisor, while his mother, Fida Sticchi, was a teacher. At the age of 4, he moved with his family to Milan, but they soon moved back to Apulia, where he gained a classical high school degree at Archita lyceum in Taranto. In 1934, his family moved to Bari, where he studied law at the local University, graduating in 1939.
After graduation, he became a professor of philosophy of law and colonial policy (1941) and of criminal law (1942), at the University of Bari. He was an Italian statesman and a prominent member of the Christian Democracy (DC). He served as prime minister of Italy from December 1963 to June 1968 and then from November 1974 to July 1976. Moro also served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from May 1969 to July 1972 and again from July 1973 to November 1974. During his ministry, he implemented a proArab policy. Moreover, he was appointed Minister of Justice and of Public Education during the 1950s. From March 1959 until January 1964, Moro served as secretary of the Christian Democracy. On 16 March 1978 he was kidnapped by the far-left armed group “Brigate Rosse” and killed after 55 days of captivity. He was one of Italy's longest-serving post-war prime ministers, leading the country for more than six years. An intellectual and a patient mediator, especially in the internal life of his own party, during his rule, Moro implemented a series of social and economic reforms which deeply modernized the country.
Due to his accommodation with the communist leader Enrico Berlinguer, known as the Historic Compromise, Moro is widely considered one of the most prominent fathers of modern Italian centre-left and one of the greatest and most popular leaders in the history of the Italian Republic. On 16 March 1978, the day of his abduction, Aldo Moro had arranged for a group of graduating students to meet in front of Parliament to have them attend the inauguration speech of the government led by Giulio Andreotti. In the afternoon Moro should have been at Sapienza University to participate in the discussion of his degree theses, in the car riddled by the shots of the via Fani ambush the bloodstained works of his students were found among bags and newspapers. This is the starting point to tell the 55 days of the kidnapping: the eyes and feelings of four students of the Criminal Procedure course of the Faculty of Political Sciences of the La Sapienza University of Rome. In the hope of his release and in anxiety for his fate, the four boys retrace their relationship with Moro, a special professor who alternated classroom lessons with opportunities outside the university to make known the reality of the subject he taught.
"Because life is not the same, but better, if young people can be young, and women in the fullness, not deformed and constrained, of their nature, and workers citizens absolutely, at the highest degree of dignity…There is no it is doubtful that we politicians will be judged on the basis of our ability to interpret these phenomena and take an appropriate position on them. Governing means doing many single important and expected things, but deep down it means promoting a new human condition."
1 giu 2023, 14:50.MOV