Carlo e Nello Rosselli: attualità di un sacrificio e di un pensiero

This paper focuses on a wide set of issues concerning the biographical and political features of Rosselli brothers, especially through the commemoration of their murder, which took place in Bagnoles de l'Orne eighty years ago. The memory of this tragical event is closely linked with the Italian antifascist movement, which counted on the thought and action of Carlo Rosselli, strongly involved in a sharp opposition to Mussolini. From the political point of view, Socialismo Liberale, the main philosophical work written by Carlo Rosselli, represents an interesting attempt of mixing socialism and liberalism, in order to create a wide political program able to put together the different parts of the divided Italian Socialist Movement. As a matter of fact, Socialismo Liberale represents a useful political tool in the present political context, characterised by the crisis of the European Left and by the prevailing of right-wing forces. In the end, this contribution aims to underline how the political experience lived by Carlo and Nello Rosselli could represent an example for people interested to act politically in a moral way, with the goal of creating a world where Justice and Liberty could prevail.