INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION

Alcide De Gasperi
A European from the future

by Maria Romana De Gasperi and Pier Luigi Ballini

Welcome

You are in the section of the International Exhibition realised on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the death of Alcide De Gasperi.

You can browse through the general information - i.e. visiting hours and how to get to the Exhibition - the Virtual tour with its 360° views or through the Guided trail and the In-depth materials which will guide you discovering Alcide De Gasperi and his age. 
 
Fifty years after the death of Alcide De Gasperi, on 19 August 1954, we would like to help the newer generations discover - and the older generations rediscover - the role and the moral and political legacy of this great Italian Statesman. He was the most authoritative and prestigious political figure in the difficult and troubled first phase of Italian democracy which characterized the period after the Second World War.
 
This Exhibition, which is to travel in Italy and abroad, will chronicle the statesman’s life and times and some of Italy’s own history. It aims to bring out the exceptional stature of the Christian and Democrat leader from the first half of last century to the period when he served as Prime Minister, Foreign Minister and architect of Italy’s civil and political reconstruction.  It pays tribute to the achievements of a Government Head who launched a series of courageous economic and social reforms and restored freedom and democracy after years of dictatorship and a devastating World War.
 
The Exhibition illustrates De Gasperi’s strong personality and the broad political vision of a man who, together with Adenauer and Schuman, was one of the architects of European unity. He was president of the first Common Parliamentary Assembly set up under the first supranational European institution, the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).
 
De Gasperi was a native of the Trentino region, and the times he lived through there made him an impassioned advocate - in every international forum - of peace in security, of cooperation between peoples and of the importance of local autonomy within the continent’s broader unity.

Because of the continuing relevance of his thinking, his faith in liberty, his exemplary lifestyle as a Christian and his personal and political style Alcide De Gasperi lives on with us to this day.

Giulio Andreotti

 

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created: Thursday, October 26, 2006
modified: Monday, July 30, 2007