the most crowded periods ), a ban on talking about politics , and the possibility of writing ( subject to authorisation from the management ) one letter ( or postcard ) a week . The organisation of the canteens was left up to the internees , according to the political movement they belonged to : among these were seven communist canteens , two of the anarchists , two of the ‘ Manchurians ’ ( i . e . those internees who were isolated from the others because they were considered informers ), one of the ‘ giellisti ’ ( i . e . “ Giustizia e Libertà ” militants ), one of the Socialists ( Sandro Pertini was the head of the canteen ) and the ‘ A ’ canteen for the sick , particularly tuberculosis patients . Later on , Altiero Spinelli would set up a new canteen , the ‘ E ’ canteen of the group of European federalists , of which he became the animator and ‘ pater familias ’.
“ Those years on that island - he wrote in his autobiography How I Tried to Become Wise , - are still present in me today with the fullness that only the moments and places in which that mysterious thing that Christians call election takes place have . The disiecta limbs of feelings , thoughts , hopes and despair were then recomposed in a new design , surprising for myself ; my weakness
Il Vassoio di Ventotene ( The Ventotene Tray ) is a work of art created by Ernesto Rossi in 1940 during his confinement on the island of Ventotene . Housed in the Historical Institute of the Resistance in Tuscany in Florence , it represents one of the most vivid iconographic testimonies of the world of those imprisoned during the Second World War | © No known copyright restrictions
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