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Commemorative plaque for the Tobacco Factory workers who died in war

Lapide ai dipendenti della Manifattura Tabacchi morti in guerra / Commemorative plaque for the Tobacco Factory workers who died in war

The plaque, to the left of the entrance on the facade of the ex Tobacco Factory in Lucca, has a large stone frame around a bronze bas-relief of a woman encircled by a turreted crown (Italy) surrounded by groups of worshippers – men (to the left), women (to the right), children and workers. Beneath this there is the plaque with dedicatory epigraph. The bas-relief is surmounted by a bronze eagle with outspread wings.

Details:

  • SALVAGNINI GIGI, Sculpture in the monuments to the victims of the first world war in Tuscany, Florence, Opuslibri, 1999

Inaugurated during the celebrations of 24th May 1923, the Tobacco Factory (closed for some time) was one of the town's most important factories at the time, and a place with a strong female and workers' presence. As a place of aggregation originated also a strong vindictive movement, in the immediate post-war period.

Marsili, Rita

Manifattura Tabacchi

24th May 1923

Non più l'azza e lo stocco dalle turrite castella alpine
si da Roma reco l'ulivo e la rosa
venni a voi nell'anno quinquagesimo dell'anno Mille
lavoratori lavoratrici
nelle persone
del Re giusto nepote del Re liberatore
l'uno Vittorio e l'altro
e della sua compagna Regina
figlia di principi sacerdoti e guerrieri
madre di buoni e belli italici figli
chiesi con la voce soave di lei – i vostri figli?
Risposi con la voce di lui ferma e grave
i figli vedranno ciò che i padri – non videro ancora
dai duri sassi cresciuto l'ulivo dagl'irti pruni fiorita la rosa
dalle armi la pace dal lavoro la felicità.
G.Pascoli
Translation: Not the axe not the sword from the towery alpin castles but from Rome I bring the olive and the rose I came to you in year one thousand and fifty worker men and women in the persons of the righteous king nephew of the liberator king Vittorio the one and the other and of his companion Queen daughter of priest and warrior princes mother of good and handsome italian children I asked with her suave voice – Your children? I answered with his firm and grave voice the children will see what the fathers – Did not yet see from hard rock grow the olive from thorny boughs the rose flower from arms peace from work happiness.
G.Pascoli

Information:

District:
Piana di Lucca
District/Location:
Lucca
Address:
Lucca, ingresso ex-manifattura tabacchi (facciata esterna), via Vittorio Emanuele II
Location:
Lucca
Contacts:
Ex - Manifattura Tabacchi
Municipality:
Common of Lucca

via Vittorio Emanuele II Lucca