Uri, the nursery school named after Marianna Denti

A day of heat and sun was the setting, today in Uri , for the naming ceremony of the nursery school in Marianna Denti .

An event, this, wanted by the Municipal Administration of the town of Coros led by the mayor Matteo Emanuele Dettori , in concert with the Grazia Deledda Usini-Uri Comprehensive Institute, the Municipal Library "GM Cherchi" and the Sassari Committee of the Italian Red Cross .

«Marianna Denti was an energetic, courageous, generous and altruistic woman, as well as avant-garde for the time in which she lived - the administrators say -. She attended the first course for volunteer nurses and became one of the most experienced Red Cross nurses. She was the president of numerous women's committees including the Association against trafficking in women and children, inspector of the Italian Red Cross, benefactress and woman of culture, as well as founder of an asylum for poor children. He arrived in Sardinia in 1911 together with his doctor brother Alberto for the anti-malarial campaign. Her mission in Sardinia didn't just have a health purpose: Marianna Denti also wanted to add a social, didactic and above all "librarian" purpose, in a territory where the illiteracy rate was really high when compared to the rest of Italy. The Municipality of Uri was also the recipient of a small library of 100 volumes and from the documents preserved in the historical archive it appears that in 1913 the Municipal Council of Uri accepted the gift of a library offered by Miss Denti Marianna which is still kept in the Municipal Library".