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Ventotene integrated project for the recovery of the Santo Stefano prison

Stefano Baia Curioni
Professor at Bocconi University in Milan
Rita Biasi
Professor at the University of Tuscia , Viterbo
Francesco Collotti
Professor at the University of Florence , Florence
Vision
Ventotene and Santo Stefano , a single city-hall , two islands that shared the fate of imprisonment and confinement also linked to political dissidence , freedom of thought and the construction of democratic and pro-European principles .
Ventotene , “ Cradle of Europe ”, where in 1941 , from the confinement of the fascist regime , Altiero Spinelli , Ernesto Rossi and Eugenio Colorni founded the Manifesto “ For a free and united Europe ”, those United States of Europe which are an increasingly topical target .
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