The tombstone dedicated to the Fallen of the first world war is made of local white marble and it has a bronze frame. On the lower side of the plate there is a bas-relief which represents two soldiers, in profile, who are holding a thorns crown, adorned with a Greek cross and with the writing PAX. The bronze frame is incomplete in the upper part and it ends, on its sides, with two arrows. Also the tombstone in the upper part has an irregular shape.
Gallery:
Details:
- Archivio Comune di Molazzana, lettera prot. 001648, 27 maggio 2004.
- SALVAGNINI GIGI, La scultura nei monumenti ai Caduti della prima guerra mondiale in Toscana. Bagni a Ripoli-Firenze, Il Bandino, 1999, scheda n° 53
- Artista moderno, 1926 spec., p. 153 cit in GIGI SALVAGNINI, La scultura nei monumenti ai Caduti della prima guerra mondiale in Toscana. Bagni a Ripoli-Firenze, Il Bandino, 1999, scheda n° 53.
Guido Cheli. Sculptor coming from Lucca, born on 1885, died at Massa Carrara on 1966.
Some local oral sources say that the different phases of realization of the tombstone have been followed by a town committee born on the twenties.
The work has been realized on 1926.
Ai figli
prodi e devoti
che
delle sacre loro ossa
contribuirono a selciare
la strada trionfale
dell’Italia
Cascio
consacra questo marmo
per
ammonire i giovani
che
al ricordo degli eroismi
mirino sempre
come marinai
alla stella polare
Bertoncini Carlo
Biagi Luigi
Bonaldi Ferdinando
Croce Renato
Salotti Giovanni
Filippini Donato
prodi e devoti
che
delle sacre loro ossa
contribuirono a selciare
la strada trionfale
dell’Italia
Cascio
consacra questo marmo
per
ammonire i giovani
che
al ricordo degli eroismi
mirino sempre
come marinai
alla stella polare
Bertoncini Carlo
Biagi Luigi
Bonaldi Ferdinando
Croce Renato
Salotti Giovanni
Filippini Donato
Translation: To children brave and devout that of their sacred bones contributed to paving the triumphal road Italy Cascio consecrates this marble for admonish young people that to the memory of heroism always sight as sailors to the pole star
Information:
District:
Garfagnana
District/Location:
Molazzana
Address:
San Lorenzo Square
Location:
Cascio
Contacts:
Tower of the village of Cascio
Municipality:
Common of Molazzana