Gramsci nelle celle di Turi

The public prosecutor prosecutor's fascist had expressed the its objective with brutal clarity: We must prevent this brain this brain from working for twenty years. They did not succeed succeed.

Antonio Gramsci was born in 1891 in Ales, in Sardinia, into a a family poor. His his health was always been frail, worsened by malnutrition in childhood and by a hump that had marked had marked since childhood.

Arrested in 1926, despite his parliamentary immunity parliamentary as member of parliament of the Communist Party Communist, he was sentenced to more than twenty years of imprisonment by the Special Tribunal Special for the defence of the State.

In the prison of Turi, in Puglia, Gramsci began to fill the his notebooks with reflections that would change the political thought political of the twentieth century.

The Prison Notebooks of the prison addressed themes extraordinarily vast: the concept of hegemony, the role of intellectuals in society, the Southern Question Southern and the folklore as the culture of the subaltern.

Written in pencil in small small notebooks to evade the censorship, these texts were smuggled out out clandestinely from the prison and published only in the post-war period.

Gramsci died in 1937, six days after being been released due to the his conditions of health already desperate. The regime had destroyed the body but not had managed to destroy the thought.