Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea (Jul 2011)
Aureliano Santini: una lunga marcia attraverso la guerra civile europea
Abstract
In October 1936 Aureliano Santini from Empoli, under the pseudonym of Silvio Morelli, arrived in Spain on board ship to enlist in the newly born International Brigades. Santini, a communist official, had spent the latest years in the Soviet Union and in Spain he would have also cooperated to the radio broadcast of the Italian antifascists. We think that Santini’s experience can be considered representative of a phenomenon that involved almost five thousand Italians. Under this consideration, we will try to investigate, in the long run, the reasons that led the young Italian antifascist to leave voluntarily for a far conflict like the Spanish one.