Eleonora Chiavarelli

Eleonora Chiavarelli (1915 – 17 July 2010) was an Italian woman who was the spouse of Aldo Moro, a politician who was kidnapped and murdered in 1978.

Eleonora Chiavarelli
Born1915 (1915)
Montemarciano, Kingdom of Italy
Died17 July 2010(2010-07-17) (aged 94–95)
Rome, Italy
Burial placeTorrita Tiberina
Spouse
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(m. 1945; murdered 1978)​
Children4
Chiavarelli, Aldo Moro and their children with Pope Paul VI

Biography

Chiavarelli was born in 1915 in Montemarciano.[1] Her father was a physician.[2] She was part of an active youth organization, Italian Catholic Federation of University Students, during her university studies.[3] She married Aldo Moro in Montemarciano on 5 April 1945.[3][4] They had four children, three daughters and a son: Maria Fida, Agnese, Anna and Giovanni.[3][5] The family spent summer holidays at their home in Terracina from 1960.[6]

Her husband, Aldo Moro, was kidnapped by a terrorist group, Red Brigades, in Rome on the morning of 16 March 1978, and his corpse was found there on 9 May 1978.[7] Following the death of Aldo Moro she did not accept the proposal of organizing a state funeral for him.[5][8] The family organized a private funeral ceremony which was attended only by a small number of family members and friends on 10 May.[9] It was Moro's request which he had written in one of his letters during his captivity.[9] He was buried in Torrita Tiberina, near Rome.[7] Chiavarelli did not attend the state funeral for Aldo Moro held in the Church of San Giovanni in Laterano on 13 May.[10][11]

In her later years Chiavarelli lived in Montemarciano and in Sanctuary of NS dei Lumi di Alberici.[1] She died in Rome on 17 July 2010 at the age of 95 and buried in Torrita Tiberina besides her husband's grave.[5][12] Her eldest child, Maria Fida, did not attend the funeral ceremony.[13]

In an Italian crime movie, The Moro Affair, directed by Giuseppe Ferrara in 1986 Eleonora Chiavarelli was featured by Spanish actress Margarita Lozano.[14]

In Marco Bellocchio's 2022 film Exterior Night, Chiavarelli was portrayed by Margherita Buy.[15][16]

References
  1. "1978-2018 Montemarciano ricorda Aldo Moro". Montemarciano News. 7 May 2018. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  2. David Moss (2017). "Prelude: 'A Long Preparation for Death'? The Life of Aldo Moro, 1916–1978". In Ruth Glynn; Giancarlo Lombardi (eds.). Remembering Aldo Moro: The Cultural Legacy of the 1978 Kidnapping and Murder. Abingdon; New York: Legenda. p. 20. ISBN 978-1-351-55153-3.
  3. Richard Drake (1995). The Aldo Moro Murder Case. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. p. 6. ISBN 978-0-674-01481-7.
  4. "Montemarciano: 75 anni fa Aldo Moro si sposava nella frazione di Alberici con Eleonora Chiavarelli". Vivere Senigallia (in Italian). 5 April 2020. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  5. "Scomparsa la vedova di Moro-Funerali oggi a Torrita Tiberina". Positano News (in Italian). 19 July 2010. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  6. Sari Gilbert (10 September 1978). "Moro Murder Darkens Mood at Party's Annual Festival". The Washington Post. Retrieved 16 September 2023.
  7. Paolo Heywood (2009). "The Two Burials of Aldo Moro: Sovereignty and Governmentality in the anni di piombo". The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology. 29 (3): 1–28. JSTOR 23820821.
  8. "Eleonora Chiavarelli, moglie di Aldo Moro". Il Sussidiario (in Italian). 9 May 2020. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  9. David Moss (1981). "The kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro". European Journal of Sociology. 22 (2): 279–280. doi:10.1017/s0003975600003726. S2CID 145234617.
  10. Tobias Abbe (2007). "The Moro Affair: Interpretations and Consequences". In Stephen Gundle; Lucia Rinaldi (eds.). Assassinations and Murder in Modern Italy Transformations in Society and Culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 98–99. doi:10.1057/9780230606913_8. ISBN 978-0-230-60691-3.
  11. Umberto Gentiloni Silveri (2022). The History of Contemporary Italy 1943-2019. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 162. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-14364-9. ISBN 978-3-031-14364-9.
  12. "Scomparsa la vedova di Moro Contestò la "linea della fermezza"". La Repubblica (in Italian). 19 July 2010. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  13. "E' morta Eleonora, la vedova di Aldo Moro". Ansa. Torrita Tiberina; Rome. 19 July 2010. Retrieved 16 September 2023.
  14. Katherine Greenburg Gilliom (2016). Searching for truth: Constructing a collective memory of Aldo Moro in Italian cinema (PhD thesis). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. p. 53. doi:10.17615/ppm7-0r96.
  15. "Bellocchio: "'Outside Night' engaging story without court intentions"". Italian Post (in Italian). 3 November 2022. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
  16. James Panichi (2 May 2023). "Memento Moro: James Panichi reviews Exterior Night". Inside Story. Retrieved 16 September 2023.
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