Monument to the Fallen of San Donnino

Information

Recommended season: all the season

Opening hours: always opened

Entrance: free

Municipality: Piazza al Serchio

Location: San Donnino

Address: Via Umberto I, San Donnino

District/Location: Piazza al Serchio

District: Garfagnana

Memorial stone in honour of the Fallen of both wars, realized in local red stone and cement. Over it, a marble cross and, on the front of the monument, inside a niche, there is the tombstone. In the upper part of the plate, you can see the military ornaments, two crossed guns and a helmet, while at the centre there is the commemorative inscription. The stone stands on a base whose extremities there are four little stones and it is delimited by a metallic gate.

Place

Via Umberto I, San Donnino

Iscription

War 1915-1918
Domenichetti Remoaldo
Egali Luigi
Giannotti Nello
Vanni Teodoro

1940-1945
Fallen and missing military
Benelli Placido
Vanni Dino
Bartolomei Antonio
Vannozzi Amerigo
Salotti Armando
Crudeli Giovanni
Masoti Cesare
Carnicelli Delfo
Fusai Dionino
Vergai Giuseppe

Civili caduti e dispersi
Bertoni Telesfero
Bertei Giovanni
Giannotti Augusto
Novarina Secondo
Regali Francesco
Poli Silvio
Carnicelli Vincenzo
Bartolomei Chiara
the people of the parish of St. Donnino
Q.M.P. 15.8.1958

Date of realization

Realized on 1958, the work has been officially inaugurated on 15^th August of the same year.

Customer

In the '50s, it has been created a town committee formed by the citizens of the parish of San Donnino. The committee has followed the phases of realization of the monument and it has put its signature on the commemorative tombstone.

Author

The author of the monument is unknown.

Notes

The typology of the work, memorial stone surmounted by a cross, with commemorative tombstone on the front of the monument, has many analogies with the memorial stone of Cogna (Piazza al Serchio). We can say that the author, or the company which has made the two stones, could be the same, or we can suppose that the memorial stone of San Donnino, previously made, has been used as model for the monument of Cogna.

Bibliography

Archivio Ancr Lucca, lettera del presidente della sezione ANCR di Camporgiano a Michelangelo Chiapparini presidente ANCR di Lucca, 15 agosto 1858.
Archivio Ancr Lucca, lettera di Michelangelo Chiapparini presidente ANCR di Lucca a Italo Orsi presidente della ANCR sezione di Piazza al Serchio, n° 3688/58, 6 settembre 1958.
Archivio Ancr Lucca, lettera di Italo Orsi presidente della ANCr sezione di Piazza al Serchio Michelangelo Chiapparini presidente ANCR di Lucca, 18 settembre 1958.
Archivio Ancr Lucca, lettera di Michelangelo Chiapparini presidente ANCR di Lucca a Italo Orsi presidente della ANCR sezione di Piazza al Serchio, n° 3778/58, 23 settembre 1958.