The course focuses on the historical narratives - an expression that must be understood in a flexible and broader meaning, which includes different types of short stories and fiction (novels, television series, movies) and aims to investigate the issues of Postmemory (Marianne Hirsch) or prosthetic memory (Alison Landsberg), the relationship between history and story, the new realism. In this theoretical framework, the course aims to analyze an exceptional case study, the Moro case, through the analysis of some literary texts: L'affaire Moro by Leonardo Sciascia, perhaps one of the most influential books of the late twentieth century; the pamphlet by Alberto Arbasino, In questo Stato, ironic portrait of Italian society in the crisis of the seventies. And above all through the letters that the political leader, assassinated by the Red Brigades May 9, 1978, he wrote by the so-called 'people's prison.'