The stele has been erected as memorial to citizens of Sillano who died during the war Italo-Turkish and the first world war. The stele, in marble and with the base square, presents on the top a cross and an olive branch. In the centre you can read the memorial epigraph with also the names of the Fallen. On the base it is engraved a bas-relief representing some military symbols: a gun and a sword crossed, covered by a helmet. On the background of the bas-relief there are some ornamental elements.
Details:
- ARCHIVIO ANCR LUCCA, nota n° 5584, nota del Comune di Sillano all’ANCR di Lucca, 23 ottobre 1995
- GIGI SALVAGNINI, La scultura nei monumenti ai Caduti della prima guerra mondiale in Toscana. Bagni a Ripoli- Firenze, Il Bandino, 1999, scheda n° 364. Il quale riporta: Artista moderno, 1925 spec.,p. 153.
- MARISTELLA PULITI, Monumenti ai Caduti in Garfagnana. Guerra 1915-1918. Scheda Sillano.
- Da Sillano, in “La Garfagnana”, 2 luglio 1923.
The author of the monument is unknown.
From the epigraph on the base of the stele " I Sillanesi ammirati-riconoscenti – memori posero" you can understand that the monument has been ordered by a town committee.
Realized on 1923, the stele has been officially inaugurated the same year.
concittadini che col pensiero
e col sacrificio della loro vita
contribuirono
all’indipendenza
e all’unita’ della patria
Guerra Italo-Austriaca
24-5-1915
3-11-1918
Lucchesini Aurelio
Codini Luigi
Regali Ambrogio
Aguzzi Massimo
Casini Domenico
Regali Adriano
Guidetti Pietro Giovanni
Bertolini Plinio
Angeli Luigi
Venchi Leonetto
Bosi Pasquale
Codini Emilio
Guerra Italo-Turca
Poli Domenico
Aguzzi Alberto
On the lower base:
I sillanesi
ammirati riconoscenti memori
posero
1923