The cultural roots of the intellectual De André

Do you remember the beautiful testimony published by us in the aftermath of the brutal murder of Bruno Tommasoli, the young of Verona beaten to death by a group of youths looking for hippies and immigrants? It was sent to us by Federico Premi, a young man unknown to us, close friend of Bruno and struck us with its depth.
Then Federico came to see us one day to the office and also spoke of his thesis on Fabrizio De André. Federico has worked on this text for long hours out in book form, published by a publishing house in Trento, Il Margine. A text of almost two hundred pages entitled Fabrizio De André, restless shadow, and above all by challenging subtitle "Portrait of an anarchist thinker."
This is a great work, the result of months spent in Siena, at the local university, where for years there has been a Fabrizio De André archive focused primarily on a (small) part of the library staff songwriter Ligurian: The Archives, created in collaboration with Fondazione Fabrizio De André, is sent out by a small number of people of great determination and professionalism, among which I quote Moscadelli Stefano Gianni Guastella and my friend (who also participated in the recent 4 th Florence Showcase publishing anarchist and libertarian).
Federico, inter alia, consulted dozens of books owned by Fabrizio, he read many commentaries (which Fabrizio was usually done by reading) and also on that basis has deepened considerably the analysis of cultural trends, the specific readings and General of the cultural context in which the thought of Fabrizio has developed - with special attention to the anarchist appearance, cleverly caught by Federico so much and not only in its ideological "membership" , as gutted in cultural and existential depth.
In short, what comes out of the complex is not reading this dense study is once again an intellectual Fabrizio, a man of great culture and suffered thought, stimulating cultural crossroads of many strands. Not unique, but certain essential strand anarchist.

Paolo Finzi

rivista anarchica
anno 39 n. 349
dicembre 2009-gennaio 2010