Is dead Laura Salvetti, widow of Luigi Firpohistorian of political ideas and great Intellectual Turin. Study of history of political doctrines, she was born in Taverna (Catanzaro) on September 28, 1933. She studied in Rome, where she met Firpo. With him he published studies on the work of Tommaso Campanella. Founded the Luigi Firpo Foundation, which hosts a rich library to which it gave over 40,000 books, and the association The book found. He created the cycle of “theater processes” which transformed the Carignano theater of Turin into a sort of court in the history of Italy.
With the former prosecutor Gian Carlo Caselli and with Marco Travaglio He staged the processes in Macchiavelli, Galileo, Garibaldi, but also to more recent characters such as Andreotti and Craxi, involving actors such as Bruno Maria Ferraro, Gloria Liberati, Bruno Gambarotta and Pif. Laura Salvetti Firpo was on the Board of Directors of the Teatro Stabile of Turin from 2002 to 2008.