ROME – Italy’s February 10 “Day of Remembrance” is worth giving more consideration to than might seem immediately obvious to the non-Italian outsider, given the poignant way it captures the politics of memory.
On the one hand, this Memorial Day to a cluster of events from an era of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath might appear rather unremarkable – an annual nod to events in the ever more distant past, not to mention how Italy has seen so much history over more than 3,000 years that you probably could find something to historically observe every day of the year without breaking a sweat.
