The present that returns – L’Osservatore Romano

June 13, 2026

by Sara Costantini There are figures in history who, even after their death, seem to continue to speak in the present. Corrado Alvaro is one of these. A writer who still questions our time on the great questions of existence, from identity to belonging to freedom. This was the underlying theme of the meeting held in Rome at the Luiss University on the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of the death of the Calabrian writer, during which the National Edition of his works was presented, intended to collect and enhance the entire literary, journalistic and theatrical production of one of the greatest intellectuals of the Italian twentieth century. The conference Corrado Alvaro, Luigi Pirandello, Renato Guttuso: masks and modernity in twentieth-century Italy has …