August 16th 2006

Dies to Oristano Edmea Gramsci, daughter of Gramsci’s elder brother Gennaro, mentioned in various Letters to the Family, that offer the occasion to Gramsci to express his pedagogic ideas, especially regarding the opportunity to use the mother tongue (Sardinian Language) to support a harmonic development of her personality.

April 4th, 2000

The Museum opens again to the public and on the 25th an exhibition on Extermination Camps, is mounted. It focuses the attention on the thematics of freedom and democracy so dear to Gramsci.

May 1999

The Association Antonio Gramsci House Museum, Centre of Documentation, research and museum activities ONLUS (Non-profit making organization) is formed. It continues the activity of the former association that ran the Museum until 1997.

November 1997

The regional council rejects the draft bill that would fund Casa Gramsci. The Association that had run the Museum since 1975 closed down and the House is closed to the public. This situation mobilizes the democratic and trade unionism forces, which organize initiatives, intended to promote the reopening of the Museum. In this occasion a large number of draft bill are proposed in the National Parliament by many politicians, but none of them will be discussed. Only the intervention of the Foundation “Bank of Sardinia” the Federation of Italian Trade Unions (CGIL), the Commune of Ghilarza ensures available founds that will lead to the reopening of the Museum.

February 1987

Dies in Milano Wando Aldovrandi, the Milanese intellectual that worked hard to gather around Casa Gramsci friends and intellectuals in order to dedicate the house where the young Antonio grew up as a tribute to the man, politician and intellectual, and with the aim of carrying out every April 27th (the day that Antonio Gramsci died) a commemorative manifestation.

February 19th, 1976

Teresina, Gramsci’s dearest sister, dies at the age of 81. With her, during the childhood and youth, Antonio shared many interests, and during the prison period, corresponded through the letters. It was Teresina, during this last period, which acted as a go-between between Antonio’s cell in Turi (Bari) and Ghilarza (Sardinia), writing about his native village and neighbourhood. It was still her that wrote letters to his brother from their old mother’s dictation.