SE ITALY, even for a few years, had an empire, was on his own. No, not by Benito Mussolini. But Adolfo Bertaccini. Or at least he said 'Bertazena and Cuciraz', I was deeply convinced, so that in the years following the conquest of Ethiopia lost no opportunity to repeat: "If Italy an empire and the AI \u200b\u200bhas the merit NECA me ' . That refrain was smiling someone who did not take seriously the words of a 'public cabbie' (hence the nickname Cuciraz, cocchieraio) tall and lanky, mustachioed upward, but they had a certain effect on the Fascist authorities and older people who remembered the days of fierce political struggles Forlì beginning of the century.
But what was the heroic deeds performed by Bertaccini to honor the imperial and Fascist Italy? We must take a step back up to before the First World War. At the time of Benito Mussolini was a young socialist leader - an unfortunate, a little less of a terrorist, for the right-minded conservatives and Forlì - Bertaccini was more or less a personality in Forli. 'And Cuciraz' piazza Saffi garrisoned with his wheelchair and his haughty bearing commanded respect. During the pre-drive, his was a public service whose value was widely recognized: the 'cocchieraio' not only took a walk by the elders to ordinary citizens but also ensured the necessary links with the hospital, government offices and the countries neighbors. One Sunday afternoon Bertaccini loaded aboard his carriage arruffapopolo Mussolini and the elderly as a companion and then much more famous than he: Angelica Balabanoff, a former collaborator of Lenin, Russian revolutionary leader and now leading the Socialist Party. The Balabanoff, intelligent and energetic woman but not handsome, he had taken under his wing the young Mussolini, already married to Rachel. And it was said, however, that their relationship was not only political.
Bertaccini accompanied the two to a socialist rally in Villafranca. The weather was hot because Romagna Socialists and Republicans (both parties and extremists 'anti-system' we would say today) faced each other, often violently. The Mazzinians loudly complained that the meeting of the 'red', addressing the commonly Balabanoff: "He's zeta, tsi Bot». The brawl that ensued ended with the arrival of the police, but the lawn was a young Republican bleeding, injured a thigh aa a knife. While Mussolini and hastily fled on board the Russian's gig Bertaccini, took the mission of punishing the Republicans. This time he faced the Benito 'gabanaza', the ultimate punishment. Come back to Forlì Via Long (now Via Isonzo), the gig because he ran into a roadblock of militant republicans. Bertazena did not lose his cool: the future leader and shouted Balabanoff to draw the curtains and not be seen. Then he began to scream out loud: "Let me go! I'm bringing a woman to give birth! E 'life in danger. " The bellicose Republicans did not doubt his words and made their way to him and the two socialists who would otherwise have very risked.
AS 'E Cuciraz' opened the way for the way his dazzling career of the master of Predappio. Who risked their lives at other times but did manage to govern until the fateful July 25, 1943, when the fascist regime collapsed. During the two decades he also Bertazena career. He modernized, from the car and then riding the bus, actually an old jalopy that several times he left on foot and its many passengers. The former MP Stephen Servadei still remembers him with his trademark look: "He had a cap with a visor paramilitary glossy and stiff, an old leather jacket, a sturdy pair of leggings. Half way, then, between a runner rider age and a Bolshevik commissar. " In the thirties of last century was a monopoly of public transport Forli. He also assured the transport service of the 'ladies' of the house of pleasure via Felice Orsini. Each 'fortnight' carried around the city the new arrivals for a sort of catwalk advertising and then accompanied to the Lab of Hygiene Salinatore avenue for the 'proof of the slides', the examination necessary for carrying out the activity. But once he forgot to withdraw from the laboratory test results and deliver them to the 'madam'. The activity of the 'brothel' remained so locked and Bertazena remedied liable for damages that cost him several hundred pounds, a substantial figure for the period.
From then on, the fortunes of business Bertaccini declined. But the coup de grace gave it the unfortunate conclusion of an epic trip to Comacchio. 'And Cuciraz' had been hired by a party of hunters with dogs in tow. There was the prospect of a good hunt and a good earnings, but once he reached the Po, the driver went in with too much vehemence on his old bus and ferry ended up in the water. The hunters began to safety at best, only Bertaccini remained trapped in his vehicle stuck in the mud launching desperate cries for help. "OIE about a cus claims. Sa fasegna to do lasegna in CLE (there is a dog who is complaining, what do we do? We'll leave it where it is?) "Teased the hunters. "Burdel, e an AC, so me and vost Bertazena (guys, not a dog, it's me, your Bertaccini)" he replied even more desperate. Then somehow managed to restart the bus, but in the rush to get rid of the muddy bank pressed the accelerator too overwhelmed and two barns from a nearby house, then running out to glide on a dunghill. Back in Forlì hunters told the adventure commenting: "A s'avesum of anghe, but as divertessum (we were about to drown, but we had fun). " 'Missed the bus and professional credit - still tells Servadei - Bertaccini retired from work. From time to time helped a funeral home for transport that were made with the horses. Then a short illness caused him to be direct user of the hearse. It was, however, already entered fully into the history of the city and thousands of Forlì continued to remember him with affection>.
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