Liberation Day Monologue

Translator’s note: April 25 is a national holiday in Italy. It commemorates the liberation of Italy from Nazism and fascism after a long resistance movement during World War II, ending in 1945. On April 20, 2024, Italian novelist Antonio Scurati—author of the Strega prizewinning and international bestseller M: Son of the Century, the first of a tetralogy about the life of Mussolini—was supposed to read his monologue about Liberation Day on a Rai 3 national television programme called Che sarà (What will be).