The fifty years since the birth of "L'Asstrolabio", the magazine founded by Ernesto Rossi and directed by Ferruccio Parri, "offer the opportunity to retrace a significant stretch of the recent history of our country through the reading and interpretation of the events political, social, cultural (national and international) that the magazine has provided". This is what we read on the back cover of "Pagine uncomfortable - The magazine Astrolabio (1963-1984)" edited by Alfredo Casiglia, for years a collaborator of Parri and editor of the magazine, published by Ediesse (pages 323, euro 15) .
After an overview of the political, social and cultural problems of the time, the book collects documents but above all memories, reflections and testimonies of the protagonists of that original season.
In the more than twenty years of its life, from 1963 to 1984, "L'Astrolabio" represented a point of reference for an area of reformist public opinion and for the political world in general and its pages were the vehicle of important battles , evidence of a civil and political commitment heir to the shareholder culture from which both Rossi and Parri came.
“If it is of any interest today to remember those years, it is also because they present similarities with the political transition that Italy is going through. Then, in the early XNUMXs, the nascent centre-left had aroused great expectations because it marked a break with almost twenty years of centrist politics dominated by the Christian Democrats; today attention and expectations are for another caesura, the one with Berlusconi's twenty years” but also with an old way of being of the left that Matteo Renzi's leadership is trying to change.
