THE MANIFESTO
Eliseo Milani, rigor and passion
ALDO GARZA
of the Historical Group of the Manifesto, Eliseo Milani was apparently among the most rude. The strong emphasis Bergamo and direct, sometimes rude, to address political issues made him obnoxious even to the top. Then it became the benchmark for some of us younger people, with whom he could confide, and were countered with attention and respect. We were young by "raising": I, Sandro Medici, Loris Campetti, Peter Barrera, Vincenzo Vita, Michele Half and many others. We have come up, each in different ways, with his advice and his amicizia.Milani, under workers grew at Dalmine, he knew it was pulling hard on an organization and develop the relationship across generations. In 1970, when the Manifesto group was in its infancy and was not yet born manifest daily, pulling the strings of the organization he thought his Milani from the rooms on the Piazza del Grillo, home of the monthly magazine and guest. At that time a deputy elected from the lists of the Communist Party, the only group in history of the Manifesto have been for eleven years (since 1957) Secretary of the Communist Federation (for more, Federation as a very particular that of Bergamo). All the early seventies had a stud in Milani fundamental first confrontation with political groups "extremists" who had joined the Rome Manifesto, then the unfortunate presentation to the parliamentary elections of 1972, then the construction of the patient and laborious Pdup, then again the division between party and newspaper. The parliamentary engagement had meanwhile moved to the Senate, where he became vice president of the independent leftist group chaired by Claudio Napoleoni, having chaired in 1976 the deputies of the new left that for the first time they had entered into a certain point parlamento.A in the early nineties, the manager of iron had begun to suffer strokes of the disease. Returning from a holiday in Cuba made together, he discovered that something was wrong in one lung. Even before he had undergone operations other (I remember in 1975 in a move to Bologna Congress Pdup supported on two crutches, but with a firm hand to direct the Election Commission). The last fifteen years, Milani experienced them as a metronome. He moved the inflexible rigor in the administration of his health few walks, the same routes, quick visits to the room or the Senate, staring at the thermometer placed on the window sill to see if it was too cold or too hot to go out, strict diet. The only distractions at the restaurant dinners and poker with friends. Every now and then returned to the hospital for a new illness and a new surgery. The quenching could always win over evil, and now the refrain was to be able to speak of the many operations incurred "by Milani 'as if they were to enter the Guinness Book of primati.Eliseo, however, suffered sein apart by politics not by choice but constraint. Once was involved in an assembly, had it not made to be quiet, but then in the afternoon had been admitted to hospital because they had created tension and thrill pressure problems. After that, there remained the fierce reading newspapers and books, discussions with friends and companions vicini.C 'were things of which he was proud precise Milani: ingraiano be from the Congress of the Communist Party of 1966, having organized in 1963 in Bergamo, a famous conference with Palmiro Togliatti on peace and war ("the destiny of man") almost simultaneously with the Encyclical Pacem in Terris of John XXIII, he joined Lucio Magri and Joseph declarant to the Communist Party, had won the Congress of Federation of the Communist Party in 1969 calling for the rewriting of the national thesis. The story of the next event was the natural consequence of that route. Thanks to the strong character and the acceptance of the disease, Milani has won at least fifteen years of getting used to the hardships of his condition. Yet he was always a joke, a lash, a suggestion, a thought and a salute to those who had remained in the trench that he had to leave. E 'was also the case last December 23 when we met for the wishes of the rite. Milani was an ironic, attentive to the events of the center is not exciting, knowing that another year had passed and that he had won. I like to remember him with his smile and the last stop in Bergamo that said something like: "Come on, you'll see that there sooner or later refer to Arcore.
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