Today, in Rome’s Protestant Cemetery, the life of Antonio Gramsci, an Italian writer, politician and political theorist is being celebrated. Gramsci, who died on April 27, 1937 – sixty-one years ago – was a founding member and onetime leader of the Communist Party of Italy, before being imprisoned by Mussolini’s Fascist regime.
One of the great intellectuals of twentieth-century Italy, Gramsci is considered to be among the most important of Marxist thinkers. Among his literary works are more than 30 notebooks and 3000 pages of history and analysis written during his imprisonment and known as the Prison Notebooks. They trace Italian history and nationalism and are important expressions of Gramsci’s Marxist theory, critical theory and educational theory.
Gramsci died in Rome at the age of 46. His grave in the Protestant Cemetery – decorated with the flowers and wreaths that are brought to the cemetery by his followers and admirers and on the anniversary of his death each year – is shown in the photo above.
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