MOARTEA LUI LUIGI TRASTULLI. MEMORIE ŞI EVENIMENT - MEMORIE ŞI FAPT
The Death of Luigi Trastulli. Memory and Event – Memory and Fact

Summary/Abstract: “A lived event”, said Walter Benjamin, “is complete on every aspects, as it is finished in the past; a remembered event is to be completed, because it is a key to connections to facts before and after it happened”. Luigi Trastulli, a 21 years old working man in a steel factory of Terni, in Central Italy, died in an altercation to police forces in March 17, 1949, when workers left the factory to participate to a protest against North-Atlantic Treat signed by the Italian Government. The strike, confrontation and assassination took place in less than 30 minutes, but since then, the remembrance of the episode has a great impact on the identity and culture of Terni. This essay debates on the way in which the event was referred to, changed and interpreted by long and deep memory, regarding both official and oral sources.

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