Santo Stefano , where for two hundred years since 1795 , the Bourbon prison recluses first , alongside the common inmates , patriots , jacobins , Risorgimento fathers , and then , during the unitary Italy and the twenty years Fascist , dissidents and fathers of the Italian Constitution who were guide , since the Fifties , for the enlightened director Eugenio Perucatti .
In both these Italian islands , located in front of the Tyrrhenian coast and on the border between the regions of Lazio and Campania , we can recognize an explicit , clairvoyant and shared critique of the totalitarian experience that marks out the continental twentieth century after the First World War , thus as a weaving of humanistic principles and institutional political visions that show , after eighty years , their relevance and their modernity .
Preserving and passing on to future generations the memory of these places , which also due to territorial marginality have incurred phenomena of abandonment and oblivion , is an essential process and a constant commitment .
In the program for the recovery of the recent historical memory of these places , three main principles are identified that can inspire the project for an integrated and possible vision of Europe .
Human Rights - Freedom of action and critical thinking , human dignity , the rule of law , solidarity , justice , international cooperation . As well as the shadows and ambiguities that run through the history of the conception of the sentence between reparation and rehabilitation that accompanied the prison ’ s organization .
The history - « Remembrance », non-rhetorical coexistence of present and memory , testimony that preserves the mystery of human lives and of time and that imbues the ways of conservation ,
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