the new names proposed by the toponymy commission
A partisan, the first woman to become a minister, a pioneer of female political activism, two magistrates who changed the history of the country. These are some of the profiles that the city of Rimini wants to remember through the new series of names evaluated by the Toponymy Consultative Commission and which will then be examined by the First Council Commission. It starts with two important female figures who, albeit in different periods and with different paths, have left a mark for future generations: Tina Anselmi and Anna Kuliscioff. To the prima – teacher born in 1927, partisan, first woman to hold the office of minister of the Italian Republic, the commission proposed to dedicate the roundabout between Via Achille Grandi, Via San Martino Riparotta and Via Severino Bizzocchi, in the area of Viserba monte . As ten years have not yet passed since her disappearance (which occurred in 2016), as required by law, a derogation was requested from the Prefecture of Rimini to proceed with the naming. The green area near Viale Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa will instead be renamed “Giardino Anna Kuliscioff- Revolutionary socialist (1855-1925)”, in memory of a woman considered among the champions of universal suffrage, remembered by the President of the Republic Sandro Pertini as the ” doctor of the poor”. Born in present-day Cherson, she specialized in gynecology, with a thesis dedicated to the causes of puerperal fever. Having indicated its bacterial origin, she paved the way for the discovery that would save millions of women from dying after childbirth. He then moved to Milan, where he began to practice medicine, going among other things to the poorest districts of the city.The roundabout that stands between Via Flaminia Conca and Via della Repubblica, a stone’s throw from the city’s Palace of Justice , close to the provincial command of the Carabinieri, could only be dedicated to those who made the search for truth the sacrifice of life: Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, the magistr ati killed thirty years ago in two mafia attacks carried out a few months apart. Antonio Russo, a journalist sent by Radio Radicale, who was killed in Georgia in 2000 after carrying out an investigation into the war in Chechnya, also lost his life following the truth. The roundabout in via San Martino in Riparotta (east entrance to Rimini Fiera) will be dedicated to him, not far from the roundabout for which the naming after Anna Politkovskaja was requested months ago. Finally, it was proposed to name the roundabout between via Guglielmo Oberdan and via XXIII Giugno 1859 after Igino Righetti (1904-1939), founder of FUCI, the Italian Catholic university federation, while the small square between via Castelfidardo and via IV Novembre, in front of the entrance to the former Convent of San Francesco to the Rimini painter Demos Bonini (1915-1991).
CS Municipality of Rimini