Journal title STORIA IN LOMBARDIA
Author/s Simone Girardi
Publishing Year 2026 Issue 2026/1
Language Italian Pages 26 P. 89-114 File size 471 KB
DOI 10.3280/SIL2026-001003
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The reflection of General Alberto Li Gobbi (1914-2011) on the morality and memory of the Resistance represents a significant case study for its ability to integrate military, political, and civic perspectives. The experience he gained during the twenty months of the anti-fascist struggle ‒ as a British Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent, partisan commander, and fighter in the co-belligerent army ‒ allowed him to engage with the various strands of the Li-beration movement. Building on his study of partisan warfare, presented at the War School in 1950, this article reconstructs the human and ideological trajectory of a Gold Medal of Mili-tary Valor for the Resistance, in dialogue with part of the lombard memoir literature on 1943-45: from the reasons behind the choice to the search for a “third way” between activism and wait-and-see attitudes, and finally to the moral factors that prevented military officers from taking the “long reins” of the struggle. After a career at the highest levels of the Italian Army and NATO, Li Gobbi developed an intense associative and journalistic activity in Milan. Through the columns of «il Giornale», his reflection engaged with some of the tensions that, between the late 1980s and early 1990s, fuelled the debate on the memory of the civil war.
Keywords: Resistence in Lombardy, Morality, Memory, Military, SOE, Civil war.
Simone Girardi, Oltre le linee: resistenze e moralità del generale Alberto Li Gobbi nel panorama memorialistico lombardo (1943-83) in "STORIA IN LOMBARDIA" 1/2026, pp 89-114, DOI: 10.3280/SIL2026-001003