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Castel San Pietro Terme
Bologna (prov.)
Emilia-Romagna

Piazza XX Settembre 5
(Palazzo Comunale)

Giuseppe Casanova

Castel San Pietro Terme 1894 - Pogdora 1915
Italian soldier killed in World War I

Cleto Tomba
1923

Castel San Pietro Terme / Giuseppe Casanova

Description

Bronze plaque with a portrait with in the background an olive (?) branch.

Inscription(s)

iv xi mcmxxiii
GIVSEPPE CASANOVA
non cvrando gli scherni dei VILI
ventenne partI volontario
il 13 givgno 1915
trentasei giorni di poi al podgora
spiro' l'anima eroica
nelle parole estreme
MVOIO MAMMA VIA L'ITALIA
cittadini a lvi concordi
posero

Signature

cleto–tomba mcmxxiii

Sculptor

Cleto Tomba (Castel San Pietro Terme 1898 - Bologna 1987), Italian sculptor Storia e memoria di Bologna

Sources & Information

Storia e memoria di Bologna, Casanova Giuseppe.
Edoardo De Carli, Chi era Costui?

Locatie (N 44°23'53" - E 11°35'21") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: iter079; Photograph: 12 May 2017
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