WITNESS AND REMEMBER: THE GREAT WAR
" at the Liceo Scientifico 'Galilei' Lancaster has been set in these days, and will remain open until the conclusion of the school year, a documentary exhibition on World War , largely unpublished material of great interest for historical research and teaching activities.
In line with the guidelines more recent historiography, in fact, the experience of the Great War comes back to life through photographs and letters, blending seamlessly, offer us, in an objective and subjective dimension, the places, the lives of soldiers in the trenches, ruins, death ...
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The photographic material of great interest, was provided by prof. Vanda Brugnoli, and comes from his grandfather, Umberto Brugnoli, who served with the Third Army, with the task of documenting the events of the war on the Isonzo front.
But there are also other unpublished photographs, kindly made provided by Ms Lucia Tartaglia, that help you understand the task, yet little known, the military chaplain, through the documents of Don Saturnino Tartaglia, in service at Monastery of Aquileia.
Particularly rich and interesting is also the correspondence between Vincent Mancinelli, of Crecchio, and three of his sons, who, serving in different places with different functions, allow us to relive and understand the hopes, fears, courage is of soldiers fighting at the front, both from those who wait at home, in anguish for news direct constant.
The close correspondence between family members Mancinelli, provided by prof. Sheldon, allows us to follow and participate in the most significant events of the Great War and the undertaking of Rijeka, in which he participated enthusiastically Arnaldo Mancinelli.
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His letters are extremely interesting to understand the blind devotion of the Captain D'Annunzio Legionnaires and above to learn more about Italian national situation in 1919 and 1920.
The exhibition shows, then, vintage postcards, is particularly significant in terms of artistic and cultural than their teaching, to study the forms of propaganda that accompany throughout the war along with local and national newspapers.
The exhibition has been organized by the High School Teachers, Professors. Luciano Biondi, Graziella Lucia De Nardis and Sheldon, who also took care of historical research.
We thank the Ethnographic Museum of Bomba for their cooperation. "
