Stories in Music 2: April 25th as told by Francesco De Gregori - Among the Lions

Reading time: 6 minutes Between July 25, 1943 and April 25, 1945, Italy went through one of the hardest periods, perhaps the most difficult in its century-long history. I struggle to remember a more dramatic moment than when Italy, following the fall of fascism, was abandoned to itself. The war was now lost: the head of government, Pietro Badoglio, signed the armistice with the Allies, while King Vittorio Emanuele III fled from Rome to Brindisi,…