When the circle of the country where he lived Mattioli, his picture was removed because of its association
Valerio Mattioli
The country in which he lived Mattioli, Tuscany was a tiny hamlet with about fifty very elderly residents, on the border with the province of Siena.
For decades there were built more houses, but the only site that had since been expanded, expropriating private land, was the cemetery.
There was a small circle where we often saw in the evening to play cards or have a coffee. Crossing the threshold of the entrance, on the wall you could see on the left, pictures of members. Among them was also that of Mattioli. After that even the local newspapers had to tell his story, the picture disappeared and was removed. The locals were afraid to show an image of them portrayed with them.
"What would have thought the police inspector of the place where he passed for a visit? "is justified.
We all held to maintain good relations with the local Carabinieri.
In the days that followed, he noticed another strange fact. When she returned from work and after parking the car in the country, in the afternoon, instantly, they all remained barricaded in the house but a look behind the closed shutters, until he disappeared from their sight, then came out and the life of country resumed. He also noticed that the baker arrived there in the afternoon and at the same time to sell her merchandise. If his misfortune Mattioli was around, nobody came out of his house and he had to leave without being able to sell one crumb of bread.
They were afraid of the police and did not want to be seen with him. On this point I will come back before, but there is no doubt that even the most tyrannical system survives if there is a desire in people to keep silent or not alive. Those people were all older and had lived fascism, but none had made the most of that disastrous experience. They complained that during the war of bombs were dropped on their homes, but not a word of blame against those who had led Italy into the abyss. They were all builders, become rich, then, with the reconstruction. It was not uncommon that someone among them, claimed to have repaired the bell tower of a church destroyed bomb from a plane, or that another would explain in detail how he had repaired the damaged wall of a castle from a cannon. It is clear that customers have gained with the reconstruction and due to war if they are then saputi maintained for fifty years that came after, thanks to a business started by a tragic fate.
The poverty that people who lived in the first half of the 900 was probably worse than the wealth that, unexpectedly, led to the war, when turned over.
All had death in the family, but the war was viewed as an ineluctable event like the earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and disease.
Not only that, but in extreme poverty, the only way to get rich was the death of a spouse could inherit from you as he could put aside in a lifetime.
One day, in this remote village, in '44 there was an intense bombardment and a farmer, between the thunder and the blast caused by the explosion was thrown several meters away. A lady in the hell was looking out the window, was less fortunate: the shock wave of the explosion hurled against a wall inside of his poor house so violently that it was not possible to recognize it; is possible that he had suffered.
The farmer, however, was rescued and, after recovering from temporary unconsciousness, put her hand under his shirt in which he had his wife sew a hidden pocket and in which he had spent all the savings of a lifetime. Did not have them anymore. During the state of unconsciousness, someone had taken them to him.
The confusion and desperation was such that soon after he died of a heart attack.
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