Wings of lead, published by Utet, has been in bookstores for a few days and is a dive without brakes into the heart of the 1977, a year that made Italy trembles between so-called revolution and tragedy. With the pen of Concetto Vecchio, a quality journalist for “La Repubblica”, we relive the rise of the Red Brigades, the fight against power and the excitement of a youth that tried without success to change the world, all told through the stories of those who lived those moments of fire. Almost fifty years have passed but it seems like yesterday but it is right to remember.
What Vecchio tells is an intense journey through broken dreams, violence and culture, which gives an authentic and never banal face to one of the most turbulent seasons of our history and where, among others, the tragedy of the vile terrorist assassination of the journalist and deputy director of "La Stampa" Carlo Casalegno stands out, but also the atrocious deaths of Francesco Lorusso, Giorgiana Masi and Walter Rossi.
Concetto Vecchio, journalist and writer, has dedicated his career to tell the story of Italian politics. Among his best known works are “It is forbidden to obey” (2005), “Giorgiana Masi, investigation into an Italian mystery” (2017) and “Kick them out! When we were the migrants” (2019). Recently, he published “I accuse you. Giacomo Matteotti and us” (2024), an investigation into the political crime of the Ventennio.
On the occasion of the centenary of the assassination of Giacomo Matteotti, we interviewed Concetto Vecchio on FIRSTonline to remember the importance of Matteotti's figure as a "civil hero" and his role as a warning also for the contemporary left.
