“When I heard it, I cried”. Alcide De Gasperi and Cesare Battisti

Recital by Renzo Fracalossi curated by Club Armonia

Organised by Centro Studi Alcide De Gasperi of Borgo Valsugana

At the beginning of the 20th century the two young intellectuals from Trentino, De Gasperi and Battisti, shared and exchanged their ideas and political convinctions, prompted by their civil passion, by a sincere love towards their country, by a strong faith in universal values, by a deep-seated culture and eventually by a deep and genuine idealism.

Alcide De Gasperi and Cesare Battisti were both journalists, deputies and Italian. One was Catholic, the other was socialist: their views of the world were poles apart, and so their interpretations of the social and economical development of Trentino, which they were both able to understand thoroughly.

Renzo Fracalossi's recital gives a voice to their debate this summer, in the centenary year of Battisti's execution on 12 July 1916 for high treason.