Abruzzo honors Galliano Magno, Giacomo Matteotti’s lawyer – Pescara – Il Centro

PESCARA. The figure of Pasquale Galliano the Greatthe lawyer of James Matteottiredeems Abruzzo from the shame of the show trial of the assassins of the socialist martyr which was held in Chieti in 1926, two years after the murder of the man who challenged the regime and its leader in Parliament, Benito Mussolini.
With Matteotti, Galliano Magno, originally from Orsogna, where he was also mayor, shared ideology and battles. And tomorrow, in the year of the centenary of the assassination of the deputy, his lawyer will be remembered in Rome, in the Senate library – Sala degli Atti Parlamentari, in Piazza della Minerva, with the documentary exhibition “Pasquale Galliano Magno, a life for freedom, legality, social justice”, set up by the Superintendence of archival and book heritage of Abruzzo and Molise, promoted by the senator Pietro Patton and inaugurated by the director Giuseppina Rigatuso and by the general director of Archives, Antonio Tarasco. The exhibition displays the fruit of research into original documents, all digitized and available online, which refer to the courageous and extraordinary life of a lawyer and politician from Abruzzo, an opponent of those characters who gravitated around the story of ordinary amorality of the Matteotti murder and what followed. The commemoration was strongly desired and organized by Marina Bell Great which has been fighting for about twelve years to overcome the damnation of memory which had erased every trace of Magno especially in Pescara, where he practiced law since 1936. Important, then, is the presence at the event – as a special prize – of 40 deserving students from the Marconi high school in Pescara proposed by their director, Giovanna ferrantewho will have the opportunity to interact with historical figures of high ethical and moral value.
The conference “Matteotti and the topicality of shared values”, moderated by the president of the Matteotti Foundation, Alberto Aghemowill then see the participation of important speakers, Nicholas Mattoscio, Massimo Bray e Claudio Modenawhich will underline the convergences between the life and thought of the Polesano martyr and his Abruzzese lawyer. Not for nothing, the historian Mauro Canali he called them “parallel figures”.
Finally, the young and talented director from Abruzzo who works in Rome, Alessandro Blasioliinspired by the text “L’avvocato di Matteotti, Pasquale Galliano Magno” by Claudio Modena, will perform the theatrical monologue he wrote for the occasion, performed here in preview and in a reduced form for logistical reasons, but which will then be repeated in full in the theatres of Italy that request it. (l.c.)