L’avvocato Leonida Casali e la difesa dei partigiani emiliani

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the role and the pattern of the militant lawyering of Leonida Casali, one of the leading members of Bologna section of the Italian Communist Party and of the Democratic Solidarity Committee during the postwar period. By construing some specifical cases, as the trials against partisans and political activists, the focus has been pointed on demonstrating the intrinsic political nature of Casali’s behavior, showing on the one hand his mastership and the operational independence, on the other the strict relationship he had with the Communist Party and the Democratic Solidarity Committee. These issues allow to trace Casali’s role as a unique in the panorama of Italian justice immediately after the Second World War.

Keywords

• civil war
• Italian Communist Party
• Leonida Casali
• partisans
• resistence
• guerra civile
• partigiani
• PCI
• resistenza