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Municipality:
Common of Gallicano
Recommended season:
all the season
Opening hours:
always opened
Entrance:
free
Address:
Via IV novembre, Gallicano
District/Location:
Gallicano
The monument, erected in honour of the Fallen of the first world war, stays inside a little monumental enclosure. It is a column on which there is a statue representing the Country. The statue of Italia, in white marble, holds in the right hand sword and shield and in the left hand a sphere surmounted by a small bronze winged victory. The column is on a base on which, on every side, there is the recurrent motive of the two swords with the hilt of lion and eagle that frame respectively: a “lupa capitolina” on the left slope; the “genius loci” on the right side. On the front of the base there are two putto* at sides of a helmet which surmounts an altar, while on the back you can observe just the motive of the two swards. The monument has a strongly symbolic and patriotic meaning: The image of the victorious country is reinforced also by the writing, on the side of the base “Italia renovat Triumphos Romanos”, while the two putto are the symbols of the new generations that honour the Fallen for the greatness and freedom of Italy. It is emblematic the reference to the cock in the town symbol.
*Putto: little boy, angel.
*Putto: little boy, angel.
Via IV novembre, Gallicano
Front: Gallicano ai suoi caduti
on back of the obelisk in the lower part: MCMXXVI
inscription in the upper part on every side: front Italia
left Renovat
back Triumphos
right Romanos
on back of the obelisk in the lower part: MCMXXVI
inscription in the upper part on every side: front Italia
left Renovat
back Triumphos
right Romanos
Realized on 1926.
The work has been ordered by the town of Gallicano.
Francesco Petroni.
The monument, that was under bad conditions with wide stains on the whole marmoreal surface during the census, has recently been cleaned and restored.
- Archivio Conune Gallicano Postunitario, estratto delle deliberazioni della giunta dal 1 gennaio 1924 al 7 settembre 1932
- Archivio Conune Gallicano Postunitario, estratto dal protocollo delle deliberazioni del podestà n° 38 1 agosto 1927, cat. I, classe 1° fasc.27.
- Archivio Conune Gallicano Postunitario, libro mastro 1927, p. 141, serie 15 n
- Archivio Conune Gallicano, cartoline storiche
- Un’opera d’arte a Gallicano. Il Monumeno ai Caduti dello scultore Petroni, in “Il Popolo Toscano” VII, 292, 23 ottobre 1926
- Gallicano inaugura il monumento ai suoi caduti di guerra, in “Il Popolo Toscano” VII, 294, 25 ottobre 1926
- La celebrazione del Nono Anniversario della Vittoria in tutta la Lucchesia. In: Il Popolo Toscano, VIII, 277, 10 Novembre 1927-V, quarta edizione.
- In “Il Popolo Toscano”, IX, 255, giovedì 8 Novembre 1928, seconda edizione.
- PUCCETTI PAOLI, Regestum Gallicanense, Tip. Benedetti, Pescia 1942, pp 196-197
- SALVAGNINI GIGI. La scultura nei monumenti ai Caduti della Prima guerra mondiale in Toscana. Bagni a Ripoli-Firenze, Il Bandino, 1999, scheda n°142.
- PULITI MARISTELLA, Monumenti ai Caduti in Garfagnana. Guerra 1915-1918, tesi di laurea. Scheda su Gallicano
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