Guido Quazza's 1976 book 'Resistenza e storia d'Italia' challenged the mythologization of the Italian Resistance

Guido Quazza's 1976 book 'Resistenza e storia d'Italia' (Feltrinelli) is described as courageous for attempting to remove the Italian Resistance from the rhetoric that tended to mummify it. Quazza argued that placing an event in the sphere of myth creates an insurmountable obstacle to its historical understanding. His biography, reconstructed by Diego Giachetti in 'Guido Quazza storico eretico' (Centro documentazione Pistoia, 2015), reveals a constant intertwining of professional rigor, dedication to youth education, and civic engagement. Born in 1922, Quazza was a partisan of socialist orientation in a politically heterogeneous formation active in western Piedmont.