Partisan diary : a woman's life in the Italian resistance / Ada Gobetti ; translated and edited by Jomarie Alano.
2014
D802.I8 M32513 2014
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Title
Partisan diary : a woman's life in the Italian resistance / Ada Gobetti ; translated and edited by Jomarie Alano.
Uniform Title
Diario partigiano. English
ISBN
9780199380541
9780199380558 (electronic book)
9780199380558 (electronic book)
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Copyright
©1996
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (384 pages) : illustrations, maps
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D802.I8 M32513 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification
940.53/45092 B
Summary
"Ada Gobetti's Partisan Diary is both diary and memoir. From the German entry into Turin on 10 September 1943 to the liberation of the city on 28 April 1945, Gobetti recorded an almost daily account of events, sentiments, and personalities, in a cryptic English only she could understand. Italian senator and philosopher Benedetto Croce encouraged Ada to convert her notes into a book. Published by Giulio Einaudi editore in 1956, it won the Premio Prato, an annual prize for a work inspired by the Italian Resistance (Resistenza). From a political and military point of view, the Partisan Diary provides firsthand knowledge of how the partisans in Piedmont fought, what obstacles they encountered, and who joined the struggle against the Nazis and the Fascists. The mountainous terrain and long winters of the Alpine regions (the site of many of their battles) and the ever-present threat of reprisals by German occupiers and their fascist partners exacerbated problems of organization among the various partisan groups. So arduous was their fight, that key military events--Italy's declaration of war on Germany, the fall of Rome, and the Allied landings on D-Day--appear in the diary as remote and almost unrelated incidents. Ada Gobetti writes of the heartbreak of mothers who lost their sons or watched them leave on dangerous missions of sabotage, relating it to worries about her own son Paolo. She reflects on the relationship between anti-fascist thought of the 1920s, in particular the ideas of her husband, Piero Gobetti, and the Italian resistance movement (Resistenza) in which she and her son were participating. While the Resistenza represented a culmination of more than twenty years of anti-fascist activity for Ada, it also helped illuminate the exceptional talents, needs, and rights of Italian women, more than one hundred thousand of whom participated"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes index.
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Alano, Jomarie, translator, editor.
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Table of Contents
List of Acronyms
Map
Introduction
10-12 September 1943
13 September-16 November 1943
17-23 November 1943
24 November 1943-23 March 1944
24 March-1 April 1944
2 April-25 June 1944
26 June-4 July 1944
5 July-14 November 1944
15-27 November 1944
28 November-25 December 1944
30 December 1944-26 February 1945
27 February-25 April 1945
26-28 April 1945.
Map
Introduction
10-12 September 1943
13 September-16 November 1943
17-23 November 1943
24 November 1943-23 March 1944
24 March-1 April 1944
2 April-25 June 1944
26 June-4 July 1944
5 July-14 November 1944
15-27 November 1944
28 November-25 December 1944
30 December 1944-26 February 1945
27 February-25 April 1945
26-28 April 1945.