On October 9th, 2025, the first lesson dedicated to the project \u201cLe Case di Mic\u00f2l\u201d<\/em> took place, led by Professor Michele Ronchi Stefanati. During the class, the project was introduced through a multimedia presentation and through several explanations and clarifications provided by the professor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Le Case di Mic\u00f2l<\/em> is a project involving various European institutions, including film schools in several cities such as Brussels, Prague, and Warsaw, as well as Ferrara. These schools are responsible for producing short films about female figures who, like Mic\u00f2l Finzi-Contini in Giorgio Bassani\u2019s novel The Garden of the Finzi-Continis<\/em>, were forced to leave their homes as a result of persecution by Fascist and Nazi regimes. The short films, addressing themes linked to racial laws, discrimination, and the loss of beloved places and people, will later be screened at the Blow-Up Academy in Ferrara, where they will be discussed by students from the participating schools, including the Luigi Einaudi<\/em> Upper Secondary School of Ferrara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our goal as students is precisely to become \u201cbearers of active remembrance\u201d<\/strong> or \u201calfieri della memoria\u201d<\/em>: people capable of remembering and continuously recognizing today all victims of discrimination and the many \u201cMic\u00f2ls\u201d across the world \u2014 young women persecuted, deported, and brutally deprived of their lives solely because they belonged to an ethnic group different from the dominant one or to a faith different from that practiced by the majority. We must never forget them, keeping their memory alive forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As mentioned, the project\u2019s name is inspired by Giorgio Bassani\u2019s 1962 novel The Garden of the Finzi-Continis<\/em>, from which Vittorio De Sica later made the film adaptation. During the lesson, Professor Ronchi Stefanati explained the plot of both works, recounting the story of the Finzi-Continis, a Ferrara Jewish upper-middle-class family made up of Ermanno and Olga and their children, Alberto and Mic\u00f2l. In both the novel and the film, the family lives in a huge house surrounded by a garden where tennis tournaments were held (the small wall and gate of this house, located in Via degli Angeli \u2014 today Corso Ercole I d\u2019Este \u2014 would later become iconic). The protagonist \u2014 Giorgio in the film \u2014 meets Mic\u00f2l and falls deeply in love with her, but he never finds the courage to express his feelings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 1938, the racial laws are issued, complicating the course of the story: Jewish citizens lose all their rights, and Mic\u00f2l moves to Venice to complete her studies and to escape the emotions she felt for the protagonist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When Mic\u00f2l returns, the protagonist finally confesses his feelings, but he is rejected. The girl becomes cold and distant and asks him not to see her or her family again. The novel ends with a time jump that reveals to the reader the fate of the characters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On October 9th, 2025, the first lesson dedicated to the project \u201cLe Case di Mic\u00f2l\u201d took place, led by Professor Michele Ronchi Stefanati. 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