The Francesco Alziator literary prize, now in its sixteenth edition , continues its journey with an interesting appointment scheduled for Friday 24 June in Cagliari (at 5.30 pm, “Giorgio Pisano” room of L'Unione Sarda, also in streaming).

Andrea Di Stasio , general of the army and commander of the Sassari Brigade for three years, presents the book "Sassari and Sardinia Brigade - Unpublished photographs without censorship (1912 - 1937) by Antonio Carruccio" published by Carlo Delfino. Beside him Sandro Solinas , collaborator in the editing of the work, and in dialogue with the authors Alberto Monteverde , journalist, historian and one of the leading experts in Sardinia on war events and in particular the Great War.

THE PUBLICATION - The volume, presented in national preview last October at the Turin International Book Fair , was exhibited during the literary event in the stand organized by the Ministry of Defense. The work was born from the collaboration between Andrea Di Stasio, the Institute for the History of the Italian Risorgimento - Central Museum of the Risorgimento, directed by Professor Marco Pizzo, the Central Institute of the Single Catalog (ICCU) and the Dessì Fulgheri family.

In the book, a selection of 118 unpublished images , in black and white and not subjected to censorship, taken from the photographic collection “Carruccio - Dessì”, discovered and enhanced by the author together with Sergeant Major Sandro Solinas.

The collection of images, created by medical colonel Antonio Carruccio between the early and mid-twentieth century, offers an extraordinary contribution to the study of the history of the Great War at a national level and to the understanding of Italian society in the years preceding the conflict and in the subsequent decade. . The photographic locations are those of the war front of Italy and Sardinia at the beginning of the century traveled by the "Sassari Brigade".

Carruccio's gaze is able to grasp, with unusual sensitivity, the singularity of a few moments of collective daily life and the traces of change.

Professor Marco Pizzo writes: “This case is different in which the photographer, contrary to the regulations in force at the time, used his own personal camera to autonomously create his own images , which documented his personal war experience . The photographs thus take on a documentary character, that is, they become precise evidence of the place and the day in which the photographer-soldier was there ".

The Carruccio photographic collection was presented through the Historical Museum of the Sassari Brigade to the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities, where it attracted the interest of the "Special Technical-Scientific Committee for the protection of the historical heritage of the First World War" and of the “Directorate-General for archeology, fine arts and landscape”, obtaining as a prize a specific grant for the Museum of the Sassari Brigade.

The meeting on Friday 24 June (from 5.30 pm to 7 pm) is organized by the Francesco Alziator Foundation chaired by Maurizio Porcelli in collaboration with the L'Unione Editoriale Group and can also be followed in streaming.

(Unioneonline / vl)

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