Le parole di Ventotene. Per un’analisi storico-critica del Manifesto di Ventotene

Abstract

Alternatively considered as a theoretical turning point in federalist thought or, otherwise, as a utopian and obsolete document, the federalist Manifesto is often quoted but rarely carefully read. Written in the political confinement on the Tyrrhenian island of Ventotene in 1941 by Ernesto Rossi and Altiero Spinelli with the decisive contribution of Eugenio Colorni, the Manifesto still remains a topic of political controversy, thus showing its vitality. Indeed, its message marks a central issue for our time: the urgency of building supranational political institutions to face global challenges.