Moro is widely considered one of the most prominent fathers of modern Italian centre-left

I see that there is a new Italian series out on the 1978 Moro kidnapping.  From Variety:

Veteran Italian auteur Marco Bellocchio returned to Cannes this year with “Exterior Night,” a limited TV series about the 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists that, prior to playing on pubcaster RAI, is now on release in two installments via Lucky Red in Italian cinemas where it’s doing quite well.

Bellocchio, who previously recounted Moro’s still-mysterious abduction in the 2005 film “Goodmorning, Night” from the viewpoint of one of his captors, is taking a different narrative approach in this series consisting  of six one-hour episodes that reconstruct the 55 days of Moro’s imprisonment from different points of view, including that of his family, his fellow high-echelon Christian Democrat politicians, and the ailing Pope Paul VI, played by Toni Servillo.

An interesting prompt.  I recognize the name Moro and have a vague recollection of the kidnapping.  But when I consider, I am unable to construct a contextual statement in my mind about Moro the leader or the incident much beyond: Moro was a significant Italian leader in the post-World War II era who was kidnapped and killed by the Red Brigades or one of the other European terrorist groups then active.  

There is an association in my mind with the 1973 kidnapping of Getty Oil scion J. Paul Getty III.  However, there is no real connection, it is just a temporal association.  Italy was chaotic in the 1970s with both political, petty criminal and organized crime violence.  

On the Moro kidnapping, the Wikipedia entry is:

Aldo Romeo Luigi Moro (Italian: [ˈaldo ˈmɔːro]; 23 September 1916 – 9 May 1978) was an Italian statesman and a prominent member of the Christian Democracy (DC). He served as prime minister of Italy from December 1963 to June 1968 and then from November 1974 to July 1976.

Moro also served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from May 1969 to July 1972 and again from July 1973 to November 1974. During his ministry, he implemented a pro-Arab policy. Moreover, he was appointed Minister of Justice and of Public Education during the 1950s. From March 1959 until January 1964, Moro served as secretary of the Christian Democracy. On 16 March 1978 he was kidnapped by the far-left armed group Red Brigades and killed after 55 days of captivity.

He was one of Italy's longest-serving post-war prime ministers, leading the country for more than six years. An intellectual and a patient mediator, especially in the internal life of his own party, during his rule, Moro implemented a series of social and economic reforms which deeply modernized the country. Due to his accommodation with the communist leader Enrico Berlinguer, known as the Historic Compromise, Moro is widely considered one of the most prominent fathers of modern Italian centre-left and one of the greatest and most popular leaders in the history of the Italian Republic.

I can see why this was much more than the run-of-the-mill Italian 1970s kidnapping of my schoolboy recollection.  

So much interesting history out there, always flowing past and often barely grasped.