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Milan, June 6 2023 – Tomorrow, Wednesday 7 June, at 16 pm, between Via Calchi Taeggi and Bisceglie, the Councilor for Culture Tommaso Sacchi will speak at the naming ceremony of Via Bianca Ceva, a teacher and partisan during the War of Liberation from Nazi-Fascism, born in Pavia in 1897 and died in Carate Brianza in 1982.

Graduated in Literature at the University of Pavia and later also in Philosophy, she had the opportunity to associate with anti-fascist intellectuals such as Benedetto Croce, Tommaso Gallarati Scotti, Francesco Flora and Umberto Zanotti Bianco. She dedicated herself to teaching at the Liceo Beccaria in Milan until 1931 when she was expelled from teaching because she was an anti-fascist and adherent of the political movement Justice and Freedom of which her brother Umberto, who committed suicide in prison in 1930, had been the founder and militant with Ferruccio Parri, Riccardo Bauer and Ernesto Rossi.

He continued to work at the Brera Art Gallery and to oppose the fascist regime by joining the Action Party.

After the fall of Mussolini he resumed teaching at the Beccaria High School in August 1943, which he left to actively join the Resistance. In December 1943 Bianca Ceva was arrested and in August 1944 subjected to trial and sentenced at the Military Court of Milan which sent her back for a new sentence to the Special Court. In October of the same year, Bianca Ceva managed to escape from prison where she was awaiting trial and reach the partisans of the Oltrepò Pavia area.

After the Liberation in 1945 he returned to teaching and became principal of the Beccaria High School.
She contributed to the foundation of the National Institute for the History of the Liberation Movement in Italy (INSMLI) of which she was general secretary from 1955 to 1972.

Bianca Ceva was also part, in the same years, of the steering committee of the review "The Liberation Movement in Italy".

Translator of Tacitus and scholar of historical, philosophical and literary problems, she translated works by Bertrand Russell (The Problems of Philosophy, Milan, Sonzogno, 1922) and John Stuart Mill (autobiography: selected pages, Milan, Unitas publishing company) from English at a very young age. , 1927), the philosopher who had already written the text On the subjection of women with the philosopher Harriet Taylor in 1869, a crucial text in support of female emancipation.

Among his numerous writings, in addition to his beloved classical studies, we remember: History of a passion: 1919 ÷ 1943 (Milan, Garzanti, 1948); Time of the living 1943 ÷ 45 (Milan, Ceschina, 1954); 1930: behind the scenes of a drama (Milan, Ceschina, printed 1955; on the story of his brother Umberto); Five years of Italian history, 1940 ÷ 1945: from letters and diaries of fallen soldiers (Milan, Edizioni di Comunità, 1964); History that returns: the third decade of Tito Livio and the last world war (Milan, National Women's Union, 1979).