Licia Pinelli (1928-2024)

On the morning of November 11, 2024, Licia Rognini Pinelli left us. We will surely remember her great determination and extraordinary commitment throughout her life in the struggle for truth and justice – not only regarding the fate of her husband Pino Pinelli – that made her an outstanding figure in the history of twentieth-century Italy.

For fifty years this determination also manifested itself in the painstaking collection of all the newspaper articles that spoke of that story “almost only hers,” of Pino’s murder, bombs, plots and State mystifications; we want to thank her again for allowing us to collect and digitally preserve the fruit of her efforts.

We will do everything we can to continue to preserve and tell the story of Pino and Licia, a founding part of our archive. A story not only ours, but everyone’s. Our thoughts are with their daughters Claudia and Silvia and their families, to whom we send a big hug.

From the Centro Studi Libertari / Archivio G. Pinelli di Milano, https://centrostudilibertari.it/ 

Archivio Licia Rognini Pinelli

A very important collection of the project “Pinelli: a history” is represented by the Licia Rognini Pinelli Archive (1969-2024), widow of Giuseppe (Pino) Pinelli. The archive consists of two series: “Correspondence” (1969-2024) and “Press Clippings” (1969-2015).

The “Correspondence” series includes the correspondence held by Licia during the same time frame with different subjects, including a good part of the letters she herself sent. The latter is not currently available for consultation for privacy reasons.

The “Press Clippings” series, which has been digitized and published online, includes thousands of articles pertaining to the investigations into the Piazza Fontana massacre, the trials, the inquiries regarding Pinelli’s assassination, the demonstrations, the trial and private vicissitudes of Pietro Valpreda; in a word, any article published in the main Italian newspapers (but also some minor and movement ones) from 1969 to 2015 that concerned Giuseppe Pinelli and the events of Piazza Fontana. The press clippings are arranged chronologically within subseries named after the newspapers’ mastheads.

Browse the archive: https://omeka.bida.im/s/pinelli/item/130