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Efficacy phenomena are therefore linked with vulnerabilities: with (situated) vulnerabilities rooted in those contingent narratives that radiate from some given forms of inequality/discrimination. This chapter analyzes a well-know, and infamous, landmark legal case, the so called Braibanti trial. The tale of the ordeal of Braibanti and Sanfratello is here used to disentangle two possible meanings of the notion of vulnerability. On the one hand, there is the vulnerability linked to a given anthropology: i.e., a vulnerability all human beings are supposed to share. Situated vulnerabilities, on the other hand, are linked to groups and identities, and to contingent inclusion/exclusion dynamics. These vulnerabilities are to be understood in the background of contingent efficacy circumstances: it is nevertheless possible to identify such vulnerabilities only when a different—incompatible—narrative is already challenging from within that given normative horizon.
My heartfelt thanks are due to Barbara Spackman, who carefully read this paper and encouraged me with precious corrections.
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See in this volume, Introduction, Sect. 1.1 and Paradoxes of Equality: Giambattista Vico.
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Raffo and Braibanti (2003) and Pacini (2016). Aldo Braibanti in Nomadica: http://www.nomadica.eu/aldo-braibanti.
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The fact that Braibanti had been a partigiano was never forgotten. In this regard see: Letteratura, è morto l’artista e partigiano Aldo Braibanti, “La Repubblica”, 8 April 2014. https://bologna.repubblica.it/cronaca/2014/04/08/news/letteratura_morto_aldo_braibanti-83062547/.
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Braibanti (1979).
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Pasolini (1969).
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See Bene and Dotto (1998).
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Pini (2011).
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Moravia et al. (1969).
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L 8 August 1985, n. 440; the writer Bacchelli could not take any advantage from such an opportunity, because he died only two months after the law was passed.
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The full text of the landmark decision of the Corte Costituzionale (decision 1981/96, 8 June) is available at: https://www.cortecostituzionale.it/actionSchedaPronuncia.do?param_ecli=ECLI:IT:COST:1981:96.
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I write these words holding my breath—human lives can be complex, fluid, sometimes difficult to grasp. Interviewed by Felix Cossolo, Braibanti stated that neither Sanfratello nor he had ever “ruled out women”. See Cossolo (1979).
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Braibanti (1969).
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The poisoner, i.e. the “monster”. Coppola (1996).
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See in this volume, Equality and Vulnerability in The Duties of Man: Giuseppe Mazzini, Sect. 8.3.
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Zanetti, G. (2023). The Italian “Braibanti Affaire”: A Tale of Two Vulnerabilities. In: Equality and Vulnerability in the Context of Italian Political Philosophy. Studies in the History of Law and Justice, vol 26. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35553-0_12
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