ABSTRACT
The events of '1968', the bomb in Piazza Fontana, the death of Pinelli and the Valpreda case all had their central impact in Milan. The political terrorism of the anni di piombo inaugurated by the bombing itself, contributed greatly to an increasing process of confusion concerning Piazza Fontana. In 1991 Corrado Stajano, a key journalist linked to the strage and its aftermath, expressed his anxiety in the pages of the satirical magazine Cuore as to whether the younger generation knew anything at all about Piazza Fontana. The public forms of memorialization represent a key way in which the events surrounding Piazza Fontana have been remembered, forgotten and contested. In Piazza Fontana, a new marble plaque was put up on the wall of the bank to coincide with the tenth anniversary of the massacre. In the Piazza Fontana case, the debates have been reduced almost totally to a debate over dead memory—the various plaques in the square and elsewhere.
