( next page ) Federalist meeting in Monte Oriolo , August 1943 . In the foreground , from the right : Elide Verardi , Ernesto Rossi , Enrico Giussani , Carlo Pucci , Guglielmo Ferrero , Clara Pucci , Bruno Pucci , Mario Alberto Rollier , Ada Rossi , Eugenio Colorni , Lorenzo Ferrero and Aida Ferrero | Photographer : unknown . © European University Institute 2021
( pagina successiva ) Riunione federalista di Monte Oriolo , agosto 1943 : in primo piano , partendo da destra : Elide Verardi , Ernesto Rossi , Enrico Giussani , Carlo Pucci , Guglielmo Ferrero , Clara Pucci , Bruno Pucci , Mario Alberto Rollier , Ada Rossi , Eugenio Colorni , Lorenzo Ferrero , Aida Ferrero | Fotografo : sconosciuto . © Istituto Universitario Europeo 2021
Today , in looking at what happened in Ventotene in 1941 there is the “ hard core ” of the facts : at the peak of total war , a small group of confined anti-fascists had the intellectual and moral strength to design a future opposite to what was in progress - the Nazi-Fascist project of new European order . But despite this , today there is a renewed need for utopia : the desire to complete , beyond its current form , the project of a united Europe .
This is demanded by the return of nationalism and the impossibility for a divided Europe to move in the global world , in the presence of challenges of unprecedented proportions . For this reason , the return to Ventotene today must be an opportunity to focus on unspoken or not sufficiently remembered aspects or unpublished questions .
The plaque discovered on the island on November 3 , 1973 cele-
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