Giancarla Codrignani

in Léo Matarasso, Seminario del 6 dicembre 2008, Cedetim, Parigi

How can we forget Leo Matarasso? How can we lose the image of a face characterised not so much by so much by his Mediterranean origin but by his special personality, strong precisely because it was expressed in that slow, even physical calmness of words and movements? The rights of peoples had in him a passionate advocate who never conceded anything to emotionalism, demagogy, or even ideologies: he taught, in fact, that rights are defended in the argument of their truth and justice.
Personally, I know that I also learnt from him – albeit to a lesser extent due to the more infrequent frequentation – as I did from Lelio Basso, to privilege doing politics by looking far and near at the same time, with the hope of utopia (which is always ‘eutopia’) and with the realism of political action taking into account the limits of today.
I too remember him with grateful remembrance.

Codrignani, Giancarla

in:

<strong>Léo Matarasso,
Seminario del 6 dicembre 2008, Cedetim, Parigi
Milano, maggio 2009</strong>