Témoignages toscans 1
Tuscan stories
The video interview with Natale Agostini
was carried out by Urbano Cipriani on Monday the tenth of October
2005 in Avena, in the commune of Poppi in Casentino (AR). The
transcription of the interview in Tuscan, and then its adaptation...
The following pages offer
a
few passages taken from diaries or memoirs written by Tosca Ciampelli, Nanda Belli, Maria Alemanno, Perla Cacciaguerra, Margherita Biagini and Marisa Corsellini,
six women who lived through the tragic experiences of the Second...
Maria Alemanno was born in Venice in 1900 (and died in 1988) and successfully
graduated from senior high school. During the war she was in Florence whilst her fiancé Nando was far away, in a German prisoner of war camp. The typewritten
manuscript arrived at the National...
Perla Cacciaguerra was born in Florence in
1926 and graduated from high school. The typed diary arrived at the
Archivio Diaristico Nazionale of Pieve Santo Stefano on the 13th
November 1997; the text was published in 2000 (P. Cacciaguerra,...
Margherita Biagini was born in
Florence in 1931, and did the middle school diploma. She wrote her
memoirs between 1997 and 2000. The manuscript was given to the
Archivio Diaristico Nazionale di Pieve Santo Stefano on 14 December
2000.
