The construction was started by Pope Urban VIII in 1642, but his death stopped the works and the complex remained unfinished. Between 1810 and 1814 the former Catholic convent was confiscated by Napoleonic French forces, who suppressed all religious orders in territories under French control during the Napoleonic Wars. While the complex was returned to Carmelite nuns shortly afterwards, they abandoned the convent in 1873. The newly established Kingdom of Italy confiscated the complex and decided to turn it into a prison in 1881. The refurbishing was carried out by Carlo Morgini and was completed only in 1900. A new complex housing a prison for women, dubbed "Le Mantellate" was erected nearby on a place also formerly occupied by a Catholic convent. Regina Coeli replaced the Carceri Nuove as Rome's primary jail.
While serving as a prison and jail, since 1902 the Regina Coeli also served as a police academy and one of the first schools in Italy to focus on forensics and criminal anthropology. During the times of Fascist Italy the prison served for detention of political prisoners. In 1943, the Nazis led by Erich Priebke rounded up and imprisoned over 1,000 Roman Jews in the Regina Coeli prison. Priebke also perpetrated the Ardeatine Massacre, many of the prisoners at Via Tasso and Regina Coeli prison who happened to be available at the time were massacred by the Nazis at the Fosse Ardeatine to fill the numerical quota set as retaliation for a partisan attack that killed 33 German SS policemen.
Pankratius Pfeiffer, Superior General of the Salvatorians and "the Angel of Rome", is said to have visited the prisons of Regina Coeli and Via Tasso everyday during the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1943 and 1944, returning with a freed prisoner, since he acted as an intermediary between Pope Pius XII and the German authorities.[1] In this capacity, he rescued hundreds of Jews and others in Rome from execution by the Nazis. He also persuaded the Nazis to spare several Italian cities from destruction during their retreat from Italy.
In 1979, the prison was bombed by the Movimento Rivoluzionario Popolare, a neo-fascist organisation.
During the theft of the Santo Bambino of Aracoeli on 1 February 1994, inmates at the Regina Coeli prison wrote a petition to their anonymous "colleagues", asking for its return.
In modern times the prison complex can house up to 900 detainees.
Notable prisoners
Pre-Fascist Italy
Amerigo Dumini, American-born Italian fascist hitman who led the group responsible for the 1924 assassination of Unitary Socialist Party leader Giacomo Matteotti, which led to the Aventine Secession (20th century). He was arrested on July 12th, 1924, at the Roma Termini railway station, as he was preparing to leave for the north of Italy and was brought to the Regina Coeli prison. He was sentenced to a five-year prison sentence, of which he only served eleven months, benefiting from an amnesty ordered by Mussolini.
Under Fascist Italy and German occupation
Massimo Mila, Italian musicologist, music critic, intellectual and anti-fascist. He was imprisoned for the first time in 1929 for anti-fascist activities. He joined the Turin group of "Justice and Freedom" (Giustizia e Libertà) and, on 15 May 1935, following a report by the writer Dino Segre -alias Pitigrilli- he was arrested for the second time together with Einaudi, Foa, Ginzburg, Antonicelli, Bobbio, Pavese, Carlo Levi and Luigi Salvatorelli. He was sentenced by the Tribunale Speciale to seven years imprisonment[4] with inter alia Riccardo Bauer and Ernesto Rossi, which he spent in the prison of Regina Coeli in Rome. In a moment of despair he wrote a letter addressed to Mussolini: "Never again will I allow myself to do or express anything that can be, directly or indirectly, in any case hostile, or contrary to, or harmful to the Regime".[5]
Giovanni Baldelli, Italian anarchist theorist. He was arrested in March 1933 for anti-fascist activities and held at Regina Coeli, Rome until 11 December 1933. He was put at the disposal of the Special Tribunal and released after nine months for insufficient evidence. During this period of incarceration he was under the "Tribunale Speciale" for five months.
Curzio Malaparte, Italian writer, filmmaker, war correspondent and diplomat. In the 1920s, Malaparte was one of the intellectuals who supported the rise of Italian fascism and Benito Mussolini. However, he was stripped of his National Fascist Party membership and sent to internal exile from 1933 to 1938 on the island of Lipari for his independent streak. He was freed on the personal intervention of Mussolini's son-in-law and heir apparent Galeazzo Ciano, but Mussolini's regime arrested Malaparte again in 1938, 1939, 1941, and 1943, imprisoning him in the Regina Coeli.
Luigi Ugolini, Italian writer. On 27 April 1940 Ugolini was arrested by the Fascist police for his essays against the regime, sentenced to 2 years. He wrote a book, "Regina coeli – dieci mesi di carcere fascista", in 1970 on his prison experience.
Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist and pioneer in the fields of humanistic and transpersonal psychology. Founder of the psychological movement known as psychosynthesis. In 1940, Assagioli was arrested and imprisoned by Benito Mussolini’s Fascist government, having been accused of "praying for peace and inviting others to join him along with other international crimes."[7] He was placed in a solitary cell in Regina Coeli prison for 27 nights, until he was released and returned to his family.
Antonio Gramsci, Italian Marxist philosopher, journalist, linguist, writer, and politician. On 9 November 1926, the Fascist government enacted a new wave of emergency laws, taking as a pretext an alleged attempt on Mussolini's life that had occurred several days earlier. The fascist police arrested Gramsci, despite his parliamentary immunity, and brought him to Regina Coeli. At his trial, Gramsci's prosecutor stated, "For twenty years we must stop this brain from functioning". He received an immediate sentence of five years in confinement on the island of Ustica and the following year he received a sentence of 20 years' imprisonment in Turi, near Bari. Gramsci died on 27 April 1937, at the age of 46.
Cipriano Facchinetti, Italian politician, deputy, senator, minister, journalist, president of ANSA and president of Malpensa airport. In 1943, being in Marseille, he was arrested by the Germans and taken to Rome to the Regina Coeli prison, until July 25th.
Leone Ginzburg, Italian editor, writer, journalist and teacher, as well as an important anti-fascist political activist and a hero of the resistance movement. Imprisoned on 20 November 1943, taken to the German section of the prison and subjected to severe torture. Died at Regina Coeli on 5 February 1944 at 34 years age.
Mario Pannunzio, Italian journalist and politician. During December 1943 Pannunzio was arrested by Nazis while he was in the newspaper's print works: he spent several months in Regina Coeli.[8]
Giuseppe Garibaldi II, Italian soldier, patriot and revolutionary, grandson of Giuseppe Garibaldi. Opposed Mussolini's Fascist Party, left for the United States, imprisoned in 1940 by German authorities when he returned to Italy. Retired to private life after the war.
Petro Marko, Albanian writer. In 1940 after being repatriated from France to Albania he was arrested by the Italian army, imprisoned in Bari, then and sent along with 600 other prisoners to Ustica, an island of the Tyrrhenian Sea from 1941 to 1943, finishing with Regina Coeli prison near Rome in 1944.[9]
Tigrino Sabatini, communist and a leader of the Italian Resistance. Arrested on 23 January 1944, Sabatini was imprisoned at the Via Tasso SS prison and subsequently Regina Coeli. Twice put on trial, he was sentenced to death on 14 April 1944 and executed on 3 May, less than five weeks before the Anglo-Americans liberated Rome.
Piero Terracina, Italian Jewish manager, Holocaust survivor of the extermination camp at Auschwitz. After escaping the catch of October 16, 1943, which took place throughout Rome, he was arrested on April 7, 1944, in Rome, following a report from an informer, together with the whole family: the parents, his sister Anna, the brothers Cesare and Leo , uncle Amedeo, grandfather Leone David. All Italians, before being Jews, no one objected in 1944, in order not to fall victim to the fascist regime and suffer the same deportation to the extermination camps reserved for opponents and Jews. The whole Terracina family was detained for a few days in the Regina Coeli prison in Rome, and after a brief stay in the Fossoli camp, on 17 May 1944, was then sent to deportation to Auschwitz.
Roberto Lucifero d'Aprigliano, lawyer and antifascist partisan during the war, politician and journalist post-war, briefly (and divisively) served as national secretary of the Italian Liberal Party in 1947/48. After the Badoglio Proclamation of 8 September 1943, Roberto Lucifero d'Aprigliano participated in the Roman resistance against the city's occupation by German forces, as a member of an underground monarchist group. In April 1944 he was captured by German Nazi paramilitaries and imprisoned in the Regina Coeli, from where he was released on 4 June 1944 as allied forces liberated Rome from the German occupation.[10]
Luigi Pintor (politician), Italian left-wing politician and journalist. On 14 May 1944, Pintor was arrested by the fascists, tortured and imprisoned at Regina Coeli, waiting for a death sentence; luckily, Pintor was freed one month later during the Liberation of Rome.[11]
Post-WWII
Guido Leto, Italian police official, head of the OVRA, the secret police of the Fascist regime, from 1938 to 1945. Imprisoned in Regina Coeli and subjected to an "epuration" commission, acquitted on 12 April 1946 by the Court of Appeal from the charges brought against him.
Piero Piccioni, Italian film score composer and lawyer, son of Attilio Piccioni. Suspect in the case of Wilma Montesi, a Roman girl found dead on the beach of Torvaianica. Attilio was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs in the brief first Fanfani government (January-February 1954), after which he was summoned again by President Einaudi to succeed Fanfani as Prime Minister. Piccioni, however, did not want to take on this responsibility due to his son's scandal. Because of this scandal, on 19 September Piccioni resigned as Minister of Foreign Affairs and from all his official offices. Two days later, his son Piero was arrested on charges of manslaughter and drug use and then imprisoned in the Regina Coeli prison. Piero obtained provisional freedom after three months in preventive detention and was finally cleared of all charges.[12]
Giorgio Pisanò, Italian journalist, essayist and neo-fascist politician. His protest against socialist leader Mancini culminated in being accused by Dino De Laurentiis for extortion in 1971 and his incarceration in Regina Coeli, where he spent 114 days before being acquitted of all charges by the Court of Rome on July 14 and released.
Claudio Camaso, Italian actor, noted as much for his troubled, violent life and neo-fascist sympathies as for his performances. On 16 September 1977, while in police custody, Camaso committed suicide by hanging himself in his cell in Regina Coeli prison.
Lillo Venezia, Italian journalist. Lillo Venezia was the second Italian journalist to be imprisoned after World War II (a few days in Regina Coeli) after Giovannino Guareschi, following a complaint for insulting religion and a foreign head of state (the Pope). Some copies of the newspaper were burned in the square by the parish priest of Spilimbergo, who judged it "worthy of falling in the magma of our Italic volcanoes, a congenial seat for similar obsessive publications".[13]
Giuseppe Ciarrapico, Italian entrepreneur, publisher and politician. President of the football club AS Roma from 1991 and 1993, and a senator of Italy for Silvio Berlusconi's The People of Freedom party in 2008-2012. Ciarrapico was convicted and imprisoned several times due to his involvement in financial scandals. The Samif-Italsanità healthcare scandal, led to his imprisonment at Regina Coeli on 21 March 1993.
Stefano Cucchi, a young building surveyor, imprisoned on 15 October 2009 after being found in possession of some packs of hashish, 2 grams of cocaine and a pill of a medicine for epilepsy. Died on 22 October due to police brutality. On My Skin (2018 film) depicts the events surrounding his death.
Joseph J. Henn, a Salvadoran and former Catholic priest who fled to Italy, was held in the prison in 2019 before he was extradited to the United States, where he faces sex abuse charges in Arizona.[14][15]
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Olga Touloumi. The Prison of Regina Coeli: A Laboratory of Identity in the Post-Risorgimento Italy. MIT Thesis, 2006 The prison of Regina Coeli : a laboratory of identity in the Post-Risorgimento Italy
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This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Regina Coeli prison news newspapers books scholar JSTOR May 2021 Learn how and when to remove this template message Regina Coeli Latin for Queen of Heaven Italian Carcere di Regina Coeli ˈkartʃere di reˈdʒiːna ˈtʃɛːli is the best known prison in the city of Rome Previously a Catholic convent hence the name it was built in 1654 in the rione of Trastevere It started to serve as a prison in 1881 Lungara street facade of the Regina Coeli prison The construction was started by Pope Urban VIII in 1642 but his death stopped the works and the complex remained unfinished Between 1810 and 1814 the former Catholic convent was confiscated by Napoleonic French forces who suppressed all religious orders in territories under French control during the Napoleonic Wars While the complex was returned to Carmelite nuns shortly afterwards they abandoned the convent in 1873 The newly established Kingdom of Italy confiscated the complex and decided to turn it into a prison in 1881 The refurbishing was carried out by Carlo Morgini and was completed only in 1900 A new complex housing a prison for women dubbed Le Mantellate was erected nearby on a place also formerly occupied by a Catholic convent Regina Coeli replaced the Carceri Nuove as Rome s primary jail While serving as a prison and jail since 1902 the Regina Coeli also served as a police academy and one of the first schools in Italy to focus on forensics and criminal anthropology During the times of Fascist Italy the prison served for detention of political prisoners In 1943 the Nazis led by Erich Priebke rounded up and imprisoned over 1 000 Roman Jews in the Regina Coeli prison Priebke also perpetrated the Ardeatine Massacre many of the prisoners at Via Tasso and Regina Coeli prison who happened to be available at the time were massacred by the Nazis at the Fosse Ardeatine to fill the numerical quota set as retaliation for a partisan attack that killed 33 German SS policemen Pankratius Pfeiffer Superior General of the Salvatorians and the Angel of Rome is said to have visited the prisons of Regina Coeli and Via Tasso everyday during the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1943 and 1944 returning with a freed prisoner since he acted as an intermediary between Pope Pius XII and the German authorities 1 In this capacity he rescued hundreds of Jews and others in Rome from execution by the Nazis He also persuaded the Nazis to spare several Italian cities from destruction during their retreat from Italy On December 26 1958 Pope John XXIII visited the prison washing the feet of several prisoners 2 This act was repeated by Pope Paul VI in 1964 Pope John Paul II in 2000 and Pope Francis in 2018 3 In 1979 the prison was bombed by the Movimento Rivoluzionario Popolare a neo fascist organisation During the theft of the Santo Bambino of Aracoeli on 1 February 1994 inmates at the Regina Coeli prison wrote a petition to their anonymous colleagues asking for its return In modern times the prison complex can house up to 900 detainees Notable prisoners EditPre Fascist Italy Amerigo Dumini American born Italian fascist hitman who led the group responsible for the 1924 assassination of Unitary Socialist Party leader Giacomo Matteotti which led to the Aventine Secession 20th century He was arrested on July 12th 1924 at the Roma Termini railway station as he was preparing to leave for the north of Italy and was brought to the Regina Coeli prison He was sentenced to a five year prison sentence of which he only served eleven months benefiting from an amnesty ordered by Mussolini Under Fascist Italy and German occupation Massimo Mila Italian musicologist music critic intellectual and anti fascist He was imprisoned for the first time in 1929 for anti fascist activities He joined the Turin group of Justice and Freedom Giustizia e Liberta and on 15 May 1935 following a report by the writer Dino Segre alias Pitigrilli he was arrested for the second time together with Einaudi Foa Ginzburg Antonicelli Bobbio Pavese Carlo Levi and Luigi Salvatorelli He was sentenced by the Tribunale Speciale to seven years imprisonment 4 with inter alia Riccardo Bauer and Ernesto Rossi which he spent in the prison of Regina Coeli in Rome In a moment of despair he wrote a letter addressed to Mussolini Never again will I allow myself to do or express anything that can be directly or indirectly in any case hostile or contrary to or harmful to the Regime 5 Giovanni Baldelli Italian anarchist theorist He was arrested in March 1933 for anti fascist activities and held at Regina Coeli Rome until 11 December 1933 He was put at the disposal of the Special Tribunal and released after nine months for insufficient evidence During this period of incarceration he was under the Tribunale Speciale for five months Curzio Malaparte Italian writer filmmaker war correspondent and diplomat In the 1920s Malaparte was one of the intellectuals who supported the rise of Italian fascism and Benito Mussolini However he was stripped of his National Fascist Party membership and sent to internal exile from 1933 to 1938 on the island of Lipari for his independent streak He was freed on the personal intervention of Mussolini s son in law and heir apparent Galeazzo Ciano but Mussolini s regime arrested Malaparte again in 1938 1939 1941 and 1943 imprisoning him in the Regina Coeli Guido Gonella Italian politician On 3 September 1939 a few days after the beginning of World War II Gonella was arrested by the fascists and brought to Regina Coeli being freed only after the intervention of Pope Pius XII 6 Though he returned to L Osservatore Romano he was forbidden to teach in Universities Luigi Ugolini Italian writer On 27 April 1940 Ugolini was arrested by the Fascist police for his essays against the regime sentenced to 2 years He wrote a book Regina coeli dieci mesi di carcere fascista in 1970 on his prison experience Roberto Assagioli Italian psychiatrist and pioneer in the fields of humanistic and transpersonal psychology Founder of the psychological movement known as psychosynthesis In 1940 Assagioli was arrested and imprisoned by Benito Mussolini s Fascist government having been accused of praying for peace and inviting others to join him along with other international crimes 7 He was placed in a solitary cell in Regina Coeli prison for 27 nights until he was released and returned to his family Antonio Gramsci Italian Marxist philosopher journalist linguist writer and politician On 9 November 1926 the Fascist government enacted a new wave of emergency laws taking as a pretext an alleged attempt on Mussolini s life that had occurred several days earlier The fascist police arrested Gramsci despite his parliamentary immunity and brought him to Regina Coeli At his trial Gramsci s prosecutor stated For twenty years we must stop this brain from functioning He received an immediate sentence of five years in confinement on the island of Ustica and the following year he received a sentence of 20 years imprisonment in Turi near Bari Gramsci died on 27 April 1937 at the age of 46 Cipriano Facchinetti Italian politician deputy senator minister journalist president of ANSA and president of Malpensa airport In 1943 being in Marseille he was arrested by the Germans and taken to Rome to the Regina Coeli prison until July 25th Leone Ginzburg Italian editor writer journalist and teacher as well as an important anti fascist political activist and a hero of the resistance movement Imprisoned on 20 November 1943 taken to the German section of the prison and subjected to severe torture Died at Regina Coeli on 5 February 1944 at 34 years age Mario Pannunzio Italian journalist and politician During December 1943 Pannunzio was arrested by Nazis while he was in the newspaper s print works he spent several months in Regina Coeli 8 Giuseppe Garibaldi II Italian soldier patriot and revolutionary grandson of Giuseppe Garibaldi Opposed Mussolini s Fascist Party left for the United States imprisoned in 1940 by German authorities when he returned to Italy Retired to private life after the war Petro Marko Albanian writer In 1940 after being repatriated from France to Albania he was arrested by the Italian army imprisoned in Bari then and sent along with 600 other prisoners to Ustica an island of the Tyrrhenian Sea from 1941 to 1943 finishing with Regina Coeli prison near Rome in 1944 9 Giuseppe Saragat and Sandro Pertini the fifth and seventh presidents of Italy respectively unknown when they were imprisoned at Regina Coeli Both freed in a raid by partisans led by Massimo Severo Giannini Tigrino Sabatini communist and a leader of the Italian Resistance Arrested on 23 January 1944 Sabatini was imprisoned at the Via Tasso SS prison and subsequently Regina Coeli Twice put on trial he was sentenced to death on 14 April 1944 and executed on 3 May less than five weeks before the Anglo Americans liberated Rome Piero Terracina Italian Jewish manager Holocaust survivor of the extermination camp at Auschwitz After escaping the catch of October 16 1943 which took place throughout Rome he was arrested on April 7 1944 in Rome following a report from an informer together with the whole family the parents his sister Anna the brothers Cesare and Leo uncle Amedeo grandfather Leone David All Italians before being Jews no one objected in 1944 in order not to fall victim to the fascist regime and suffer the same deportation to the extermination camps reserved for opponents and Jews The whole Terracina family was detained for a few days in the Regina Coeli prison in Rome and after a brief stay in the Fossoli camp on 17 May 1944 was then sent to deportation to Auschwitz Roberto Lucifero d Aprigliano lawyer and antifascist partisan during the war politician and journalist post war briefly and divisively served as national secretary of the Italian Liberal Party in 1947 48 After the Badoglio Proclamation of 8 September 1943 Roberto Lucifero d Aprigliano participated in the Roman resistance against the city s occupation by German forces as a member of an underground monarchist group In April 1944 he was captured by German Nazi paramilitaries and imprisoned in the Regina Coeli from where he was released on 4 June 1944 as allied forces liberated Rome from the German occupation 10 Luigi Pintor politician Italian left wing politician and journalist On 14 May 1944 Pintor was arrested by the fascists tortured and imprisoned at Regina Coeli waiting for a death sentence luckily Pintor was freed one month later during the Liberation of Rome 11 Post WWII Guido Leto Italian police official head of the OVRA the secret police of the Fascist regime from 1938 to 1945 Imprisoned in Regina Coeli and subjected to an epuration commission acquitted on 12 April 1946 by the Court of Appeal from the charges brought against him Piero Piccioni Italian film score composer and lawyer son of Attilio Piccioni Suspect in the case of Wilma Montesi a Roman girl found dead on the beach of Torvaianica Attilio was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs in the brief first Fanfani government January February 1954 after which he was summoned again by President Einaudi to succeed Fanfani as Prime Minister Piccioni however did not want to take on this responsibility due to his son s scandal Because of this scandal on 19 September Piccioni resigned as Minister of Foreign Affairs and from all his official offices Two days later his son Piero was arrested on charges of manslaughter and drug use and then imprisoned in the Regina Coeli prison Piero obtained provisional freedom after three months in preventive detention and was finally cleared of all charges 12 Giorgio Pisano Italian journalist essayist and neo fascist politician His protest against socialist leader Mancini culminated in being accused by Dino De Laurentiis for extortion in 1971 and his incarceration in Regina Coeli where he spent 114 days before being acquitted of all charges by the Court of Rome on July 14 and released Claudio Camaso Italian actor noted as much for his troubled violent life and neo fascist sympathies as for his performances On 16 September 1977 while in police custody Camaso committed suicide by hanging himself in his cell in Regina Coeli prison Lillo Venezia Italian journalist Lillo Venezia was the second Italian journalist to be imprisoned after World War II a few days in Regina Coeli after Giovannino Guareschi following a complaint for insulting religion and a foreign head of state the Pope Some copies of the newspaper were burned in the square by the parish priest of Spilimbergo who judged it worthy of falling in the magma of our Italic volcanoes a congenial seat for similar obsessive publications 13 Giuseppe Ciarrapico Italian entrepreneur publisher and politician President of the football club AS Roma from 1991 and 1993 and a senator of Italy for Silvio Berlusconi s The People of Freedom party in 2008 2012 Ciarrapico was convicted and imprisoned several times due to his involvement in financial scandals The Samif Italsanita healthcare scandal led to his imprisonment at Regina Coeli on 21 March 1993 Stefano Cucchi a young building surveyor imprisoned on 15 October 2009 after being found in possession of some packs of hashish 2 grams of cocaine and a pill of a medicine for epilepsy Died on 22 October due to police brutality On My Skin 2018 film depicts the events surrounding his death Joseph J Henn a Salvadoran and former Catholic priest who fled to Italy was held in the prison in 2019 before he was extradited to the United States where he faces sex abuse charges in Arizona 14 15 References Edit Fr Pancratius Pfeiffer Societas Divini Salvatoris Video John XXIII Visits Regina Coeli Prison America Magazine November 18 2010 Pope washes feet of inmates at Regina Coeli prison Vatican News www vaticannews va March 29 2018 Mila Massimo Enciclopedia Italiana Archived from the original on 6 July 2021 Retrieved 6 July 2021 Roberto Festorazzi Caro Duce ti scrivo edizioni Ares Milano 2012 pag 85 La penna di Guido Gonella che firmo la storia d Italia larena it 31 December 2017 Retrieved 8 November 2018 2016 Freedom in Jail Roberto Assagioli Ed by Catherine Ann Lombard Istituto di Psiconsintesi Firenze Italy English Mario Pannunzio Dal Grande Dizionario Enciclopedico U T E T Centro Pannunzio Torino Retrieved 19 April 2017 Aurel Plasari 2013 11 27 Petro Marko mes zilise dhe lavdise Petro Marko between envy and glory in Albanian Gazeta Panorama archived from the original on 2013 11 30 retrieved 2013 11 28 Giuseppe Sircana 2006 LUCIFERO Roberto Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Istituto dell Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani Retrieved 21 May 2017 Donne e Uomini della Resistenza Luigi Pintor anpi it 25 July 2010 Retrieved 20 October 2018 Wilma Montesi la morte il giallo lo scandalo nella Dc il processoUn mistero lungo 60 anni Lillo Venezia notizie biografiche Girodivite 24 March 2020 Retrieved 24 March 2020 Former priest wanted on abuse charges in Arizona arrested in Italy Archived from the original on 2019 05 31 Retrieved 2019 08 05 1 dead link Bibliography EditOlga Touloumi The Prison of Regina Coeli A Laboratory of Identity in the Post Risorgimento Italy MIT Thesis 2006 The prison of Regina Coeli a laboratory of identity in the Post Risorgimento Italy Coordinates 41 53 43 N 12 27 52 E 41 89528 N 12 46444 E 41 89528 12 46444 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Regina Coeli prison amp oldid 1131803744, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
