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C 'is that those who swear in a blurred picture of the assault of the anti-clerical forlivesi the statue of the Madonna, evicted from the square to make way for Saffi, next to a wild young Mussolini himself cloves, Aldo Vittori, better known as E ZOP to Vitoria. It was 1909 and with his knotty club hit like a madman at the statue of the Virgin, engaged in a race with his friend Benito blasphemous. The rest on the card sported the title of which he was most proud of: sbranatore of the clergy. Aldo
Vittori is one of those characters that surround their existence in the soul of a city and they distill their attitudes of the characters, even when they are completely contradictory. And so his biography becomes rapidly epic, enriched with a thousand anecdotes of uncertain veracity, but of great charm.
him the nickname came directly from his condition of polio since birth. Cripple, it was then, in times unwilling to politically correct. And he reacted with anger and rush to his physical disability: he had the air of wanting to be pitied, even went to the attack, attacking others. And the men in particular. By anarchist and revolutionary conviction, the son of a captain Garibaldi, they made a boast of anticlericalism without discounts. When dragging his injured leg to the center of Forlì and could see a tunic, rolled up his stick and shouting unrepeatable. Daniele Gaudenzi in 'Family Album' attributes the invention of the phrase became the slogan of the anti-clerical Forli 'Pull the network, which transfers go! ", Referring to the procession of seminarians in black skirt that were conducted around the center citizen under the guidance of superiors. And the leader Stefano Romagna Servadei said that one day, crossing Piazza Saffi covered by snow, and ZOP Vitori cruised to a monk all numb and feet uncovered and red-faced in the poor footwear. Mercilessly hissed back: "Oh, little tern, if there is the paradise you've got a pretty scam." And the expression in the original dialect was much more colorful and obscene sexual innuendo.
GOLDSMITH by profession, lived in Vittori via Guerrini and was, like many of Forlì, a regular visitor to pubs. Among revolutionary projects and jars of wine, pulled later in a tavern in Piazza XX Settembre. And with a crash into a breathalyser alcohol from returning home by George Regnoli and wowing the honest citizens with a chant of profanity and exaltation of the few virtues of the pious women of Forlì. A lover of opera, attended the municipal theater, but still could not stop his spirit of opposition and often gave in outburst from the gallery. So much so that for a time he was even barred from entering.
In the twenties, while the former revolutionary comrade became dictator Benito and made peace with the Pope, even Vittori suddenly denied his anti-clericalism. Needless to say, the 'conversion' was all due to a pious lady who incredibly managed to soften his character. It is said that Vittori, rather than lose the opportunity to start a family (he was in later years and had no relatives), even agreed to marry in church. But put the condition that the ceremony to happen at six in the morning, in a church with a priest and outlying discreet. But the news was the same, throwing the confusion among the ranks of the poor Vittori anticlerical and was greeted by a hail leaving the Church of insults, the lightest of which were traitors and vigliac.
HAD BEEN past the other side, that of right-thinking people and lovers of the established (like his friend Benito ...), but obviously something's gnawing still inside. In February 1929, the day of reconciliation between church and state, found himself in the Piazza Saffi pass and stopped to chat with some friends. There was discussion of the resolution of the problem of temporal power, and he, alluding to the cold and snowy place, came up with a joke of his: "luit TNU and if the computer on and let tempurel ia nuit" (they were held power and we left the storm).
But the moment
critical of his epic was yet to come. Indeed, I wonder if it ever really arrived. Although the story has become a popular historical truth. However, it is said that during an official visit by Mussolini to his old city, Vittori donned an old coat turned inside out and stood in the street, blocking the car led the procession of the Duce. And before the guards could catch him, looking into the eyes of old revolutionary socialist, he shouted: "Fat Curago Benito, AIO vult gabana NECA me", referring to marriage in church and agreed with the Holy See. It seems that the Duce recognized him on the fly, smiled, and with a wave of hand stopped the fascists forlivesi ready to give him a sound lesson. "And also the fact - known Servadei - highlights two positive virtues Romagna: solidarity in the transgression, and the continued friendship of the performers, with personal roles changed dramatically." In more mature Aldo
Vittori changed, however, truly life. He and his wife went to Mass at the Church of the suffrage, became a friend of Don Pippo, and taken to the dental profession, dedicated to assisting the poor and needy, working with nuns and monks who once saw as a smoke screen! But his figure on the political battle was not over yet: Catholics tell who died in 1950 at seventy comforted by faith and attended by Don Pippo, but lay claim to his last theatrical gesture and desecrated. "In point of death of the old clergy sbranatore woke up - ensures Servadei - and got a funeral without a priest in the early morning, a ritual is not unusual for the era Romagna."
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