Seventy-fifth Anniversary

This year, the 75th Anniversary of the Resistance (Italy’s Liberation Day), which falls on Saturday, April 25, 2020, will be celebrated under an unprecedented spotlight: as indeed, in consequence of the state of emergency declared on January 31, 2020, some of people’s civil rights and freedoms have been temporarily suspended — “Nothing is more permanent than the temporary” — and the first hour’s “safer-at-home” advice was turned into an Armageddon “stay-at-home” order. And yet, it is sad how soon a deserted city may become a ruin; and how soon life may be dissolved by the fear of dying. But, alas, such a paradox will barely do justice to all those who gave their lives for freedom — for they believed freedom was worth dying for. Photo: Alamy.