Desperate Inscriptions: Graffiti from the Nazi Prison in Rome 1943-1944

Cultural Writing. Graffiti. The former SS and Gestapo headquarters in Rome is today an eerily quiet place. The silence is broken only when school children visit. Tucked away on Via Tasso in a middle-class district in the Eternal City--a stone's throw from the Basilica of St. John in Lateran--the former prison is now the Museo Storico della Liberazione di Roma, commemorating the liberation of Rome by Resistance fighters and Allied troops in June 1944. Within, anti-fascist partisans scrawled graffiti full of pathos and the romantic idealism that so permeated the Italian Resistance. A visitor today can still read the desperate inscriptions, collected in this volume along with recollections by inmates and narratives concerning the Via Tasso.Stanislao G. Pugliese is the author of 'Desperate Inscriptions: Graffiti from the Nazi Prison in Rome 1943-1944', published 2002 under ISBN 9781884419577 and ISBN 1884419577.