Conference: Are Italians good people? Angelo del Boca and the history of Italian colonialism
 

May 25th from 9.30am Moriggia Palace hosts the conference in the conference room "Italians good people? Angelo del Boca and the history of Italian colonialism".

Angelo Del Boca (1925-2021) he was many things: man of letters, journalist, special correspondent, magazine editor. He is still known today above all for having innovated the historical study of national colonial past, to which he dedicated himself uninterruptedly from the 1960s onwards. His volume Italiani brava gente? it was an editorial success. His revelations on the fascist use of gas in the Ethiopian war are memorable, even in controversy with Indro Montanelli.

This important conference, with scholars of various generations and of various orientations, discusses the legacy of his research for the Italy of today and tomorrow.

It is organized byLombard Institute of Contemporary History, In collaboration with the 'Ferruccio Parri National Institute, Milan is Memory, and the Department of Historical Sciences and Cultural Heritage of the University of Siena.

A live streaming is planned on the site www.ilscmilano.it 

Inaugural greetings from:

Tommaso Sacchi, Councilor for Culture, Municipality of Milan

Ilaria Torelli, curator of Palazzo Moriggia | Museum of the Risorgimento

Paolo Pezzino, president of the Ferruccio Parri National Institute

Ada Gigli Marchetti, president of the Lombard Institute of Contemporary History