GRAMSCI MONUMENT

2012

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"Every
human being
is an
Intellectual."
Antonio Gramsci


AMBASSADOR’S NOTE 3

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Yesterday was a day of words. A group of young rappers and poets made their visit to the radio station. One of them approached me and asked that I read two of his poems. The verses were on the topic of love. The first one began with the joyful emotions of reciprocal love while the second was a bitter ode to the loss of the loved one and the nakedness of jealousy. The author clearly aware of the universality of his experience appeals to our recognition of his suffering and the endurance of his hope of the return of his beloved. The tenderness of Jamal's second poem made me recall Gramsci's letters to his wife Giulia, the caring words that he used to conclude each letter but also their mutual struggle at articulating with precision of their emotions. In one letter dated February 9, 1929, he attributed their inability to the "modern education of [their] minds, which has not yet found its own adequate means of expression."