Laboratoire italien. Politique et société, n° 35/2025

Nuto Revelli (1919–2004) was an Italian author from Cuneo (Piedmont) who drew inspiration from his experiences as an officer in Russia, as a "Partigiano" during the Second World War, and later from recording the stories of peasants in the Cuneo area. He died in 2004, leaving behind a complex and diverse body of work. From diaries to oral account collections, all his books converge on a moral and political imperative: to pass on the memory of wars and the marginalised populations of his region.

The issue titled The 20^th Century of Nuto Revelli: Practices, Networks, Memory, Testimonies aims to examine Nuto Revelli's work in light of the experiences, encounters and intentions that shaped the author’s intellectual and literary journey, as well as his interviewing, collecting, translating and transcribing methods. The specificity of the dossier lies in its ambition to situate Revelli within the history of knowledge from the post-war period to the 2000s. It also aims to methodologically analyse both the intellectual traditions that influenced Revelli’s development of his laboratory tools and the philological examination of his work, including both written and oral sources.