In the book Il Mio Racconta by Mario Colaianni, he dates this photo to "Primi del 1900".
Inscription on the monument:
| To
the valiant who sacrificed their lives on the altar of the fatherland here consecrated with the gratitude of the new Italy |
Names on the monument:
| Per
Ferite (Died of
Wounds) Carlini, Pasquale Carratelli, Carmine Colaianni, Luigi Colaianni, Sabatino Colaizzi, Giovanni D'Achille, Giuliano DiFlorio, Agostino DiIullo, Nunzio DiMartino, Amico Friani, Fedele Morgano, Nicola Rossi, Vincenzo Sciullo, Amico Settifrati, Filippo Sozio, Antonio Tempesta, Giovanni ------- Jannone, Ottorino |
Per
Malattie (Died of
Disease) Caetani, Giovanni Colaianni, Carmine Carlini, Amedeo Ciotoli, Oreste Colaizzi, Carmine DiFlorio, Ercole DiSanza, Liberato Frazzini, Vincenzo Gatti, Giovanni Milano, Oreste Onorato, Amico Quaranta, Alberto Quaranta, Giovanni Quaranta, Pietro Ricci, Sabatino Tempesta, Francesco |
From http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Biographical/Diary/edited/1194/6.html :
Nov. 1 (or 4, which seems to be a secular AllSaints): November 4, 1918 was the date on which victorious Italy ceased fighting the First World War. It is thus the Italian equivalent of the Armistice Day celebrated in America and most of Europe on November 11th, a date on which the dead of all wars are honored.
It is also probably useful to note, for the non-Italian reader, that what to the rest of us was a First World War, was for Italy a continuation and completion of the Risorgimento: the war (which for Italy, only started in 1915) was against an Austria that had just a generation or so before still owned large portions of Northern Italy. The Austrian War must therefore be seen in the framework of the creation of modern Italy.
Finally, precisely because the end of the Austrian War was within a few days of All Saints, there is an effective connection, and in Italy one speaks of "I Morti" as early November, including All Saints on Nov. 1, All Souls on Nov. 2, and Victory Day on Nov. 4.
In the book Il Mio Racconta by Mario Colaianni, he dates this photo to "Prima metà del 1900".
In the book Il Mio Racconta by Mario Colaianni, he dates this photo to "Seconda metà del 1800".
