Democratic Italy in the 'Seventies.

The rich italian historiography related to the most dramatic feature of the seventies – the black and red terrorisms – risks identifiying this decade only as 'the night of the Republic'. In the same period, on the other hand, another Italy elevated and nourished its democratic conscience, active political participation and civic awereness and achieved significant individual as well collective rights and freedoms. Its protagonists came from the same younger generation of those who lost themselves in ideological extremism, destroying own lives and that of others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]