“A Calabrian loaned to Italy”: this is the title of the talk that the historian Agostino Giovagnoli, professor emeritus at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, will give this afternoon at 5pm, in the Sala della Lupa of the Chamber of Deputies on the occasion of the commemoration of the Honorable Riccardo Misasi twenty-five years after his death.
In the presence of the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, in addition to Professor Giovagnoli, editor of the volume of parliamentary documents and political speeches of Misasi, the former honorable Mariapia Garavaglia and Calogero Mannino will also participate in a debate moderated by the journalist Marco Damilano who will retrace the human, political and spiritual biography of one of the protagonists of the political life of republican Italy from the 1950s until 2000, the year of his premature death.
An exponent of the grassroots current of Christian Democracy, Riccardo Misasi from Cosenza was elected to Parliament in 1958 at the age of 26, where he remained until 1994, holding many important positions in the party and government. In particular, he was minister of public education, foreign trade and the South. At the beginning of the commemoration, after the institutional greetings of Lorenzo Fontana and Anna Ascani, President and Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies, there will be a memory of Maurizio Misasi, son of the ex-minister and president of the “Riccardo Misasi” Foundation.