Fulmine è oltre il ponte
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| Author | William Domenichini |
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| Original title | Fulmine è oltre il ponte |
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| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
| Subject | Italian resistence movement |
| Genre | Novel |
Publication date | 2018 |
| Pages | 356 |
| ISBN | 9788897883869 Search this book on  . |
Fulmine è oltre il ponte is an Italian partisan novel (Fulmine is over the bridge) written by William Domenichini, published in 2018 by publishing house of Naples, Marotta&Cafiero Editori.
The book tells the story of a man who, following the disbandment of the Italian Royal Army in World War II due to the armistice of 8 September 1943, begins a troubled journey home, coming later to participate in the Italian resistance movement partisan against fascism. The narration refers to facts that actually happened.
Plot[edit]
September '43. Ciro is twenty years old; enlisted in the Italian Royal Army has just returned from the campaign in Greece, during the World War II. His platoon is responsible for escorting a convoy of ammunition and weapons near Brenner but, once they arrive, they are ordered to blow up the convoy. After executing it, they remain without orders and, unaware of what was happening, they begin their journey home.
He decides to come back at home, in Follo, the birthplace in province of La Spezia, on a journey full of dangers, despite the Armistice the war is not over. The nazists are everywhere, their detachment is at the gates of the country, and the fascists are reorganizing themselves. Finds his childhood friends, even their stragglers, and with the help of a former officer of the army and the priest of the country begin to steal the weapons abandoned by a department of alpine by instance in the Val di Vara hiding them. They start organizing themselves clandestinely, linking up with other groups of stragglers from neighboring countries.
The story takes as background the war of resistance and the actions carried out by the partisans of Giustizia e Libertà, Ciro becomes the partisan Fulmine, the name of battle that will accompany him until the end of his story. His stories are intertwined with the events of his family, his friends, highlighting how the characters are gears of History, narrating their struggle for the Liberation from a point of view of the people.
The project[edit]
The novel is based on the stories of the author's grandfather, Ciro, who fought in the Val di Vara Battalion, partisan formation belonging to the Colonna Justice and Freedom, active in the so-called IV operative area, the strategic area bounded by the provinces of La Spezia and Massa-Carrara, otherwise known as Lunigiana. Ciro, was decorated with two War Merit Cross, of Patriot's Certificate, of Commemorative Medal of the War of Liberation. On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of Liberation, the prefect of La Spezia conferred on him the Liberation Medal.
8th September 2017, on the anniversary of the Cassibile armistice, was launching a crowdfunding campaign for the production of the book. In two months, through the website of the publishing house of the historic neapolitan publishing house, detected in 2010 by Rosario Esposito La Rossa and Maddalena Stornaiuolo of the Vo.di.Sca association ("Voci di Scampia"), reaches its goal, thanks to a widespread campaign of communication, through social networks, a newsletter containing the "Fulmine's Pills or some of the interviews of the protagonist of the novel.[1], newspaper[2][3]: in 60 days are 77 contributions were recorded (corresponding to 240 copies of the reserved book), collecting € 2,528 on the € 2,000 target (+126%).
Author[edit]
William Domenichini was born in 1978 in La Spezia. Graphic designer in italian company, has been involved for many years in the National Association of Italian Partisans, with whom he has developed historical-cultural projects in schools, on the partisan and italian resistance memory, as the editors of the calendar celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Liberation [4]. He contributed with the Associazione Storico Culturale Stella Tricolore to the realization of docufilm "La battaglia dei Casoni"[5]
His passion for the history of the Resistance, for the values of antifascism merges with that of writing, gained over many years of activity in the magazine Informazione Sostenibile [6], contributing with other Webzine (Manifestiamo, L'Indro, DemocraziaKm0) and with the experience of the book / dossier about the abandonment of the areas military "Riconversioni urbane" [7] (!Rebeldia Editions), a collection of testimonies coordinated by the Municipality of Commons of Pisa.
References[edit]
- ↑ Fulmine's Pills
- ↑ Cronaca4 - "Fulmine è oltre il ponte", partisan novel handed down from grandfather to nephew
- ↑ partigiano-fulmineGenova15.html Fulmine, italian partisan
- ↑ ANPI Follo 2015 Calendar
- ↑ dei-Casoni-3-August-1944.htm Associazione Stella Tricolore, La battaglia dei Casoni
- ↑ Informazione Sostenibile
- ↑ !Rebeldia Edizioni, Riconversioni urbane
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