Genna had found him "witty, like Alberto Sordi." They had three sons: Mario, who grew up to become journalist and author, and also an editor of La Repubblica Paolo and Luigi, born a few months after his father's death. In 1968, Luigi Calabresi married Gemma Capra whom he'd met at a celebratory party hosted by a friend in Milan. He'd previously met Capanna on 16 November 1967 while in charge of the police force that had evacuated Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, occupied for a few hours by students led by Capanna. Calabresi was present and escorted Capanna away from the attacks. Mario Capanna of the Marxist group Movimento Studentesco joined the funeral procession in a public gesture of denunciation of political violence, but was physically attacked by a number of attendees. On 19 November 1969, the funeral of murdered policeman Antonio Annarumma in Milan was attended by large crowds and a number of prominent politicians. At next year's Christmas, Calabresi gave Pinelli as a gift Enrico Emanuelli's book 1000 Millions of People, a gift reciprocated by Pinelli the following August with Edgar Lee Masters' poetry collection Spoon River Anthology, ostensibly Pinelli's favorite book. During these contacts, Calabresi, according to his son Mario, met railway worker Giuseppe Pinelli, anarchist activist and organizer. In 1967, after a series of contacts with the organizers of an event in Colico, Calabresi supported their request for a camping license, subsequently provided by the Como Police. Journalist Giampaolo Pansa, who knew him, described Calabresi as having a "cordial and easygoing air," someone who "reads a lot and tries to understand the ideas and the men of the extra-parliamentary left," ideas that had become "his job". Ĭalabresi, in the course of his work in the political section of the police, cultivated contacts with various persons of the Italian left. During his time in the police force, he occasionally wrote articles that were published under a pseudonym in the newspaper Momento-sera. In 1965, he won the competition to enter L'istituto superiore di polizia and, after completing his studies there, he was assigned to the position of deputy commissioner in Milan. Police career Īfter finishing his studies, Calabresi, feeling himself, as he'd confided to friends, unsuited for the forensic work of jurisprudence, chose to try and enlist in the police. Having being part of Catholic associations during his years in school, he enrolled, while studying at the Sapienza, in the Oasis movement, founded in 1950 by Jesuits. In 1964, he successfully defended his Ph.D. He attended the classical secondary school San Leone Magno and then the Sapienza University of Rome to study Law. His father was a wine and cooking oil merchant. Luigi Calabresi (14 November 1937 – ) was an Italian Police officer in Milan assassinated by far-left terrorists.Ĭalabresi was born on 14 November 1937 into a middle-class Roman family. Medaglia d'Oro al Valor Civile in memoriam as a victim of terrorism, The whole scheme was to be decorated with friezes, herms, nudes and putti, in the manner of Annibale Carracci’s Galleria Farnese. It was to consist of a central scene of St Louis of France in glory, flanked by two smaller scenes of his military triumphs running above the cornice were to be figures of other celebrated French kings, flanked by trophies and captives. The design of the fresco was described by the contemporary biographer Giovanni Pietro Bellori. Cardinal Barberini’s interest in the project waned, work came to a halt, and the little that had been executed was replaced in the mid-eighteenth century by rich decorations and a fresco by Charles Joseph Natoire. Sacchi made a start on the frescoes, but illness overtook him and he handed responsibility for the scheme to his pupil Carlo Maratti. The influence of Cardinal Mazarin was instrumental in restoring the fortunes of the Barberini and allowing the return to Rome in 1653 of Francesco, who in gratitude commissioned Andrea Sacchi to fresco the vault of the French national church in Rome, San Luigi dei Francesi. On the death of Pope Urban VIII in 1644, his nephew Cardinal Francesco Barberini had to go into exile in France. On the left of the sheet is a study for the seated figure on the left-hand side of the scheme. Five studies for the seated captive figure on the right-hand side of the vault of the church of S Luigi dei Francesi, Rome.
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