Berlin – Luciana Castellina presents her political debut in “La scoperta del mondo” (“Discovering the World”)

Between the age of 14 and 18, Luciana Castellina wrote a diary telling the story of how she got into politics: it starts in Riccione on 25 July 1943, the day in which her tennis match with her schoolmate Anna Maria Mussolini was suspended because the daughter of the ‘Duce’ was obliged to flee (her father had just been arrested in Rome), and goes all the way to the day she became a member of the PCI (the Italian Communist Party).  The story of those years is told in “La scoperta del mondo” (Nettetempo): the book will be presented by the author on 18 May at the Italian Institute of Culture in Berlin, from 7 to 9 p.m. The book tells the story of how a girl born in the Parioli (high-class) district of Rome starts opening her eyes onto the world and history: from her first trips to post-war Prague and Paris, to the first friends, questions, rebellions and discoveries of a young spirit impatient to take shape. The diary, even if revised and enriched, has maintained all the freshness and force of her testimony on a piece of history which was decisive for post-war generations. The book makes a revealing and absorbing reading, also enriched by unpublished photographs of the period.