Restituire una voce: Canto per Francesca di Cetta Brancato

Tra memoria civile, genere e contro-monumento narrativo

Abstract

This article analyses Canto per Francesca by Cetta Brancato as a work of civil theatre that challenges the dominant commemorative narratives surrounding the 1992 Capaci bombing. By giving voice to Francesca Morvillo, long marginalised within public memory and overshadowed by the figure of Giovanni Falcone, the play constructs a narrative counter-monument that resists heroic simplification and ritualisation. Drawing on memory studies, gender theory, and performance studies, the article explores how the monologue reclaims Morvillo’s professional, ethical, and emotional subjectivity. The text is read as an act of reparative cultural memory, capable of reopening public mourning and questioning patriarchal structures of remembrance within Italian anti-mafia discourse.