Resumen de "tutt'altro che per amore d'elogi e di difese". Pagine su Raffaello a Napoli in anni di guerra, tra storici dell'arte, artisti e critici militanti
In the year of the quincentennial celebrations of the death of Raffaello (1520), it is fitting to begin with the monograph on the artist published by Sergio Ortolani in 1942, and continue with pages written in Naples or by Neapolitan artists during the Second World War and in the years immediately following. The passages re-edited or published for the first time were by Luigi Pepe Diaz, Paolo Ricci, and Guglielmo Peirce, all of whom openly opposed the Fascist regime, as did Ortolani himself, expressing themselves in writing, especially Ricci and Peirce, and paying the consequences of their political choices. Although their writings were typologically different -a monograph in Ortolani's case, notes in manuscript form by Pepe Diaz, an article in the Communist Party newspaper "L'Unità" by Ricci, a passage in a novel by Peirce- what links these pages, besides the personal relationships among their authors, is that they all turned to Raffaello in one of the most painful historical moments of the past century in order to speak of patriotism, Italy, liberty, and civilization.
