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Rossana Rossanda. The Girl of the Twentieth Century. Her Papers in Florence

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From November 29, 2025, to January 9, 2026, the State Archives in Florence will host the exhibition Rossana Rossanda. The Girl of the Twentieth Century. The exhibition traces Rossana Rossanda's life from her birth to the founding of “il manifesto” and her subsequent expulsion from the Italian Communist Party in 1969. After being staged in Venice, Rome, Milan, and Bologna, the Florentine leg of the exhibition will feature letters, images, and unpublished documents preserved in her archive.

The section “Letters, images, and documents” not only documents events, encounters, and places, but also follows the thread of the autobiography La ragazza del secolo scorso (The Girl of the Last Century), published by Einaudi in 2005, focusing on subsequent moments in her life as a militant and intellectual, in a thematic journey that intertwines personal and political dimensions.

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Rossana Rossanda.The Girl of the Twentieth Century. Her Papers in Florence

Exhibitions

The exhibition, promoted by the State Archives of Florence and the “Alessandra Contini Bonacossi” Association for Women's Memory and Writing, is divided into two parts: on the walls, panels from the photo-documentary exhibition created in 2024 by lveser (Venetian Institute for the History of Resistance and Contemporary Society) on the occasion of the centenary of Rossanda's birth and a selection of papers from the Rossanda Fund acquired in 2021 by the State Archives of Florence in accordance with her will.

The opening of the exhibition will be preceded by speeches by Paola d'Orsi, Rosalia Manno, Daniela Fattori, and Giulia Albanese.

When
29/11/2025 - 09/01/2026
Monday — Friday
9:00 - 17:00
08/12/2025
Closed
25/12/2025
Closed
26/12/2025
Closed
01/01/2026
Closed
06/01/2026
Closed
Prices
Where
Archivio di Stato di Firenze

Rossana Rossanda. La Ragazza del Novecento. Conferenze

Readings, Conferences, Meetings

Three conferences will be held during the exhibition period:

November 29 (opening): presentations by Paola d'Orsi, Rosalia Manno, Daniela Fattori, and Giulia Albanese

December 17: presentations by Maria Fancelli, Monica Pacini, Sandra Teroni, and Mario Pianta, coordinated and introduced by Simonetta Soldani

January 9: presentations by Filippo Magni, Luigi Luporini, Giuseppe Ferrulli, and Anna Marson, introduced and coordinated by Doriana Ricci

When
29/11/2025
from 10:30
17/12/2025
from 10:00
09/01/2026
from 10:00
Prices
Free entrance
Where
Archivio di Stato di Firenze