The Arrest of Corrado Valli

The grand neoclassical facade of the Palazzo di Giustizia in Rome, known to all Italians as the Palazzaccio, loomed against the pale morning sky like a fortress of travertine marble. Overlooking the turbid waters of the River Tiber near Piazza Cavour, the colossal palace had stood for over a century as the theoretical heart of the Italian legal system. Yet beneath its monumental statues of ancient jurists and soaring vaulted…