Alcide De Gasperi: dalla ricostruzione al sogno europeo. Baluardo di libertà, democrazia, giustizia sociale, pace

Alcide De Gasperi: from reconstruction to the European dream. Bulwark of freedom, democracy, social justice, peace

Abstract

This essay aims to analyse the Europeanism of one of the best-known Italian statesmen of the Twentieth century: Alcide De Gasperi. Considered among the founding fathers of the contemporary project of European unity, De Gasperi was the protagonist of a complex political season, both domestically and on a continental and international level. The essay – without neglecting the cultural references and the relationship with other great personalities of the time, such as Schuman and Adenauer – traces the phases and the attempts made by De Gasperi to realize his European dream until the collapse of the EDC: the last great battle of the Italian statesman.