# La notte della Repubblica

La notte della Repubblica (The Night of the Republic) is a TV programme presented by Sergio Zavoli, broadcast by the Italian public TV channel Rai 2. The programme ran from 12 December 1989 (20th anniversary of Piazza Fontana bombing) to 11 April 1990; the first episode was broadcast on Tuesday, second on Monday, while other episodes were aired every Wednesday evening.
The programme told of Italy during the Years of Lead, with movies, interviews with some protagonists of the period and final discussion.
In 1992 the material broadcast on television was transcribed in the book La notte della Repubblica.

## Episodes

| Date | Number | Theme | Interviewees | Guests |
| December 12, 1989 | 1 | Piazza Fontana bombing | Corrado Stajano (journalist), Pietro Valpreda (anarchist) | Salvo Andò (Italian Parliamentary of PSI in 1989), Aldo Aniasi (Mayor of Milan from 1967 to 1976), Guido Calvi (criminal lawyer), Mario Capanna (leader of Movimento Studentesco in 1969), Pietro Calogero (Judge of Treviso in 1969), Giuseppe Gargani (Italian Parliamentary of DC in 1989), Libero Gualtieri (Italian Parliamentary of PRI in 1989), Franco Servello (Italian Parliamentary of MSI in 1989), Luciano Violante (Italian Parliamentary of PCI in 1989) |
| December 18, 1989 | 2 | 1960s in Italy | Stefano Delle Chiaie (founder of National Vanguard) | Tina Anselmi (politician), Umberto Cappuzzo (former policeman and politician), Federico Umberto D'Amato (former Italian secret agent), Luciano Lama (syndicalist in 1960s), Giacomo Mancini (politician), Pino Rauti (founder of Ordine Nuovo), Massimo Teodori (Italian author and politician) |
| December 27, 1989 | 3 | Protests of 1968 in Italy | Mario Capanna (political leader during the protests), Giampiero Mughini (journalist) | Giorgio Benvenuto (political and syndicalist), Marco Boato (militant of Lotta Continua in 1969–73), Margherita Boniver (Italian Parliamentary of PSI in 1989), Guido Carli (banker, economist and politician), Bartolo Ciccardini (Italian Parliamentary of DC in 1989), Carlo Donat-Cattin (politician), Giuseppe Glisenti (President of Finmeccanica in 1989), Claudio Petruccioli (journalist and politician), Giorgio Pisanò (Italian Parliamentary of MSI in 1989) |
| January 3, 1990 | 4 | Birth of the Red Brigades | Alfredo Bonavita (member of RB) | Sabino Acquaviva (sociologist), Piero Bassetti (politician), Gian Carlo Caselli (Judge of Turin), Lucio Colletti (philosopher), Giorgio Galli (political expert), Sergio Garavini (politician), Ugo Intini (journalist and politician), Giuseppe Leoni (manager of Sit-Siemens in 1970), Libero Mazza (Prefect of Milan from 1966 to 1974), Aldo Natoli (politician), Mario Segni (politician), Ersilio Tonini (Archbishop of Ravenna-Cervia in 1990), Guido Viola (Judge of Milan in 1970s) |
| January 10, 1990 | 5 | Armed propaganda | some members of RB | |
| January 17, 1990 | 6 | Golpe Borghese and neo-fascist subversion | Antonio Labruna (former Italian secret agent), Amos Spiazzi (Italian Army General) | Salvo Andò (Italian Parliamentary of PSI in 1990), Michele Coiro (Judge of Rome), Massimo De Carolis (member of DC in 1970s), Franco Ferraresi (sociologist), Alfredo Pazzaglia (Italian Parliamentary of MSI in 1990), Mariano Rumor (Italian Prime Minister in 1970), Luciano Violante (Judge of Turin in 1970s), Claudio Vitalone (Judge of Rome in 1970s) |
| January 24, 1990 | 7 | Attack against Judiciary | Alberto Franceschini (member of RB), Mario Sossi (Judge kidnapped by RB) | Paolo Barile (jurist and lawyer), Adolfo Beria di Argentine (jurist), Alfredo Biondi (politician and lawyer), Gian Carlo Caselli (Judge of Turin), Fulvio Cerofolini (political and syndicalist), Fernanda Contri (lawyer), Giovanni Leone (President of Italy from 1971 to 1978), Francesco Meloni (Judge of Genoa), Claudio Vitalone (Judge of Rome in 1970s) |
| January 31, 1990 | 8 | Piazza della Loggia and Italicus bombing | Vincenzo Vinciguerra (neo-fascist activist) | Pier Ferdinando Casini (Italian Parliamentary of DC in 1990), Franco Castrezzati (syndicalist), Ottaviano Del Turco (syndicalist), Franco Ferraresi (sociologist), Libero Gualtieri (Italian Parliamentary of PRI in 1990), Umberto Improta (Police officer), Ignazio La Russa (member of MSI in 1990), Rosario Minna (Judge of Milan in 1970s), Pierluigi Onorato (politician), Aldo Tortorella (Italian Parliamentary of PCI in 1990), Ambrogio Viviani (former Head of counterintelligence) |
| February 7, 1990 | 9 | 1974–77 in Italy | Enrico Fenzi (member of RB) | Nicolò Amato (Judge of Rome in 1970s), Luigi Covatta (politician), Mario Gozzini (politician), Sergio Lenci (architect), Stefano Rodotà (jurist and politician), Oscar Luigi Scalfaro (politician), Egidio Sterpa (Italian Parliamentary of PLI in 1990), Raffaele Valensise (politician and lawyer) |
| February 14, 1990 | 10 | Movement of 1977 | Antonio Negri (sociologist and political philosopher) | Sabino Acquaviva (sociologist), Roberto Formigoni (founder of Popular Movement), Tommaso Mancini (criminal lawyer), Aldo Natoli (politician), Luciano Lama (politician and syndicalist), Nicolò Lipari (politician), Franco Piro (politician), Alberto Ronchey (journalist), Nicola Tranfaglia (historian), Angelo Ventura (sociologist), Emilio Vesce (politician) |
| February 21, 1990 | 11 | Kidnapping of Aldo Moro – Part 1 | Franco Bonisoli (member of RB) | First part of discussion: Guido Bodrato (Italian Parliamentary of DC in 1978), Mario Capanna (member of Proletarian Democracy in 1978), Ugo Intini (journalist and politician), Oscar Mammì (Italian Parliamentary of PRI in 1978), Ugo Pecchioli (Italian Parliamentary of PCI in 1978), Dante Schietroma (Italian Parliamentary of PSDI in 1978), Valerio Zanone (Italian Parliamentary of PLI in 1978) Second part of discussion: Giovanni De Matteo (Judge of Rome in 1978), Umberto Improta (Police officer), Luciano Infelisi (Judge of Rome in 1978), Roberto Martinelli (journalist), Antonio Padellaro (journalist), Severino Santiapichi (Judge of Aldo Moro trial), Ivo Sassi (General of Carabinieri) |
| February 28, 1990 | 12 | Kidnapping of Aldo Moro – Part 2 | Mario Moretti (member of RB in 1970–81) | Gennaro Acquaviva (politician), Tina Anselmi (Italian Parliamentary of DC in 1978), Manfredi Bosco (Italian Parliamentary of DC in 1978), Gerardo Chiaromonte (Italian Parliamentary of PCI in 1978), Giovanni Ferrara (Italian Parliamentary of PRI in 1978), Franco Franchi (Italian Parliamentary of MSI in 1978), Giovanni Galloni (Italian Parliamentary of DC in 1978), Ferdinando Imposimato (Judge of Rome in 1978), Claudio Signorile (Italian Parliamentary of PSI in 1978), Gianfranco Spadaccia (journalist and politician) |
| March 7, 1990 | 13 | Kidnapping of Aldo Moro – Part 3 | Mario Ferrandi (member of PL), some members of RB, interview to Benigno Zaccagnini | Piero Alberto Capotosti (jurist), Lucio Colletti (philosopher), Adolfo Gatti (criminal lawyer), Bianca Guidetti Serra (criminal lawyer), Antonio Marini (magistrate), Gianfranco Miglio (jurist and political scientist), Franco Russo (member of Proletarian Democracy in 1978), Severino Santiapichi (Judge of Aldo Moro trial), Oscar Luigi Scalfaro (Italian Parliamentary of DC in 1978), Pietro Scoppola (historian, academic and politician), Lucio Villari (historian) |
| March 14, 1990 | 14 | Prima Linea | some members of PL | |
| March 21, 1990 | 15 | 1979–81 in Italy | Roberto Rosso (ideologist of PL), some members of RB, Gianni Letta (journalist), Giuliano Zincone (journalist) | Gaspare Barbiellini Amidei (journalist), Mario Cervi (journalist), Vittorio Emiliani (journalist), Miriam Mafai (journalist), Valentino Parlato (journalist), Emilio Rossi (journalist), Marco Taradash (journalist and politician), Livio Zanetti (journalist), Guglielmo Zucconi (journalist) |
| March 28, 1990 | 16 | Bologna massacre and Train 904 bombing | Valerio Fioravanti and Francesca Mambro (Italian neo-fascists and members of NAR) | Tina Anselmi (Italian Parliamentary of DC in 1990), Odoardo Ascari (lawyer), Guido Calvi (criminal lawyer), Pier Ferdinando Casini (Italian Parliamentary of DC in 1990), Adriano Cerquetti (lawyer), Fabio Dean (criminal lawyer), Franco Ferraresi (sociologist), Giulio Maceratini (Italian Parliamentary of MSI in 1990), Franco Piro (Italian Parliamentary of PSI in 1990), Renato Zangheri (Mayor of Bologna from 1970 to 1983), Roberto Villetti (journalist and politician), Ambrogio Viviani (former Head of counterintelligence), Torquato Secci (president of Associazione tra i familiari delle vittime della strage di Bologna del 2 agosto 1980 from 1981 to 1996) |
| April 4, 1990 | 17 | Decline and defeat of terrorism | Patrizio Peci (first Pentito of RB), other members of RB | Sabino Acquaviva (sociologist), Adriano Bausola (philosopher and academic), Antonio Glauco Casanova (journalist and politician), Gabriele De Rosa (historian and politician), Franco Ferrarotti (sociologist), Piero Ottone (journalist), Giuseppe Tamburrano (historian and journalist), Giuseppe Tricoli (historian and politician), Antonello Trombadori (art critic, journalist and politician), Saverio Tutino (journalist) |
| April 11, 1990 | 18 | Epilogue: after terrorism | Giulio Andreotti (Italian Prime Minister in 1990), some terrorists, Carlo Maria Martini (Archbishop of Milan in 1990) | Giuliano Amato (Italian Parliamentary of PSI in 1990), Nicolò Amato (Judge of Rome in 1970s), Ernesto Balducci (Roman Catholic priest), Alfredo Biondi (Italian Parliamentary of PLI in 1990), Marco Boato (Italian Parliamentary of Rainbow Greens in 1990), Giovanni Ferrara (Italian Parliamentary of PRI in 1990), Pino Rauti (national secretary of MSI in 1990), Rossana Rossanda (journalist), Gianfranco Spadaccia (Italian Parliamentary of PR in 1990), Aldo Tortorella (Italian Parliamentary of PCI in 1990), Claudio Vitalone (Italian Parliamentary of DC in 1990) |