Maurizio Iannelli

Maurizio Iannelli is an Italian director, writer and ex-terrorist. Militant of the "Brigate Rosse", in the period 1978-1980 became one of the leaders of the Roman column. Iannelli took part in various terrorist acts, which earned him a sentence of two life terms in processes known as "Moro", "Moro Bis" and "Moro Ter". In 1987 - with Renato Curcio, Mario Moretti and Piero Bertolazzi - he signed the famous letter to the newspaper "il manifesto" where was theorized the end of the armed struggle and proposed the "social and political solution to the cycle of class struggles developed in the seventies." After knowing the transsexual Fernanda Farias de Albuquerque wrote to her and with her the autobiographical novel "Princesa". The novel has inspired the eponymous song by Fabrizio De André, in the album "Saved souls".