by Andrea Carli
On April 25 seventy years ago, Italy was liberated from the Nazi occupation by the Allied forces and the Italian partisans. In the years immediately following the fall of the dictatorship and the birth of democracy, the thirst for greater knowledge turned into a desire for redemption, as explained in the 1950s by Aldo Ferrabino, the then-president of the Italian Encyclopaedia.
The post-war years were a sensitive period, with many open wounds that still to this day have not completely healed. In that period, the Institute of the Italian Encyclopedia, for most Italians dubbed with the friendlier name "la Treccani," played a crucial role on the cultural front.
Fonte: Italy24
