March 16, 1978, on a street of Rome five bodyguards were gunned down and Italian prime minister Aldo Moro kidnapped. Some days later the first messages from the Brigate Rosse, a terrorist organization ...

At the start of The Big Fake, a Netflix dramatization of one criminal’s involvement in the most tumultuous events in post-war Italy, Toni Chichiarelli (Pietro Castellitto) is a talented painter living ...

Sciences Po provides funding as a member of The Conversation FR. Central Rome, 9 May 1978. A crowd of curious passersby spills out by an open car boot. There lies the bullet-riddled body of Aldo Moro, ...

Veteran Italian auteur Marco Bellocchio returned to Cannes this year with “Exterior Night,” a limited TV series about the 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro ...

IN ITALY, almost nothing seems straightforward. In a country where public life is ruled even more than elsewhere by ideology, corruption, back-scratching and hidden interests, the basic ...

film profile], presented in competition at Venice Film Festival in 2003, the director tells the story of the kidnapping of Aldo Moro (played by Roberto Herlitzka), from the point of view of the ...

In Torrita Tiberina, in the Tiber Valley, the former Prime Minister Aldo Moro is buried. In the village of the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, beloved by Moro, 46 years after his disappearance, the ...

The photographic exhibition "Aldo Moro. Memory, Politics, Democracy" will be inaugurated tomorrow at 10:30 at the Palace of Culture, created by the Riccardi Archive and promoted by the municipal ...

Not the prisoner, not the martyr: Aldo Moro returns to being simply Aldo Moro. With his humanity, his curiosity, his fragilities. This is the soul of the new book by Angelo Picariello, a journalist ...

Why was the Italian state apparently so reticent to negotiate his release, and why were police inquiries so inept. Was Moro in effect abandoned by his political colleagues? And what does the Moro ...