Books, ‘Massacre Masso Fate’ history of partisans and Florence – Books
(ANSA) – FLORENCE, NOV 20 – NICOLA COCCIA, ‘MASSO AT THE MASSO DELLE FATE. OTTONE ROSAI, BOGARDO BURICCHI AND ENZO FARAONI FROM 1933 TO THE LIBERATION OF FLORENCE ‘, (ETS, PP 324, EURO 22). There is the story of a small partisan group led by a poet and a painter up to the most important attack on the railway lines of central Italy and on the arms factory in ‘Massacre at the Masso delle Fate. Ottone Rosai, Bogardo Buricchi and Enzo Faraoni from 1933 to the Liberation of Florence ‘, the latest book by Nicola Coccia, published by Ets, former author of’ L’arse argille consolerai. Carlo Levi from confinement to the Liberation of Florence ‘(Ets) with which he won the Carlo Levi prize.
The volume, which will be presented in Florence on 1 December next, at the Libraccio bookshop, at 6.00 pm, tells the intertwining of that assault with the life of Bruno Fanciullacci, the most wanted gappista in Tuscany, the killing of Giovanni Gentile and with the capture of the infamous Mario Carità and Pietro Koch who had locked Luchino Visconti in a wardrobe for a week. A series of people and facts linked together in the Florence of the 30s and 40s, where people were hungry for art, poetry and freedom. The book is the result of 15 years of research and interviews until the discovery in the Central State Archives of an unpublished document that finally reveals the destination of a TNT that the Germans had destined for four cities to slow down the Allied advance. (HANDLE).
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