La storia di tre antifascisti del centro minerario di Guspini: i repubblicani Ettore Manis e Luigi Murgia e il socialista Eugenio Massa

Abstract

The citizens of Guspini, Eugenio Massa, Luigi Murgia and Ettore Manis were sent into internal exile after having been accused of anti-Fascism in November 1937. Eugenio Massa had been a Socialist, which then became a member of the PNF (National Fascist Party) in 1923, while Luigi Murgia and Ettore Manis belonged to the Republican tradition. The three of them were kind of an exception among the anti-Fascist supporters from Guspini, because exile was usually experienced mostly by anti-Fascists with Communist ideas. Their paths crossed in the evening of the 4 September 1937, when the three of them met (along with a fellow countryman, the attorney Riccardo Lisci) in the house of Mr Massa, to listen to the radio news of Radio Barcelona, which that evening broadcasted an intervention of the refugee, Velio Spano, who had also lived in Guspini for some years together with his family.