FERRARA
Rosso & Nero Sangue

Synopsis

Remo, on his return from the front, with the sole desire to make a life for himself with his fiancée Lucia, finds the town disrupted by struggles between socialist leagues and Red Guards on the one hand and tenants, sharecroppers and landowners on the other. The struggles will lead Remo, to side with the nascent fasci di combattimento.

The massacre of Piazza D'Accursio in Bologna, the following massacre of Castello in Ferrara, will be the determining elements of Italo Balbo's descent into political contention and will lead Remo to assume a determined role in the struggle of the Fasci, alongside his Captain, against the socialist leagues becoming his right-hand man. Facts that really happened, but have fallen into oblivion, historical figures who really existed, recounted in the texts of the time.  Only Remo, Lucia and their families are fictional, supporting the account of how the “red biennium” and the “black biennium” was experienced in my city. 

Fonti bibliografiche
AA.VV.,  Atti dell’Archivio del Regno d’Italia,  Commissione Parlamentare On. Falcioni, Roma, 1921.
I. E. Torsiello, Il Tramonto delle baronie rosse, A. Taddei e figli, Ferrara, 1921. 
M. Franceschetti, L’assalto del fascismo alla Cooperazione italiana 1921-1922, Editrice Coop, Imola, 1949.
R. Forti, G. Ghedini, L’avvento del Fascismo-cronache ferraresi, S.T.E.T., Ferrara, 1922.