The memory of Giacomo Matteotti is a present and intensely shared reality in this first centenary of the barbaric fascist assassination which made him a martyr to be honored with the conviction that the ideals for which he fought are today more alive and strong than ever.
Among the many events that take place in the city in this period, highlighting the value of a character who history has welcomed among the “Great”, the exhibition set up, as an evocative journey through the rooms of the Mulino al Pizzon ecomuseum, is certainly the most engaging and suggestive. It is in this place imbued with atmospheres suspended between dream and reality, veiled by the silences of the earth impregnated by the whim of the waters that fertilize and bless it, that the deputy Matteotti returns home.
The entire family of Elena, the granddaughter who never knew her grandfather, attended the inauguration of the exhibition which officially opened at 11am last Saturday in the presence of the authorities: the prefect of Rovigo Clemente Di Nuzzo and the mayor of Fratta Giuseppe Tassowho uttered words of engaging meaning, arousing the silent and moving attention of the large audience present.
Doing the honors were the coordinator of the set-up work: the architect Cristiano Fenzi, the “landlady” Donatella Girotto and all the collaborators with the historical coordination of Luigi Contegiacomo.
The intervention of Giacomo Matteotti’s niece who passed the baton to little Beatrice was touching. daughter of her great-grandson, who has read her clear thoughts written with the genuine simplicity of a child who delves into the painful reality of a family past that she is learning to understand.
The cutting of the tricolor ribbon made by the mayor opened the doors of an iconographic itinerary exhibited in the “lissiara” where we can read, among precious postcards and rare stamps (private property of Daniele Ambrosin), a story that now sleeps the sleep of a pregnant past of misery and submission: a substratum generating the ideals of social justice and equality that animated the fervent young socialist Giacomo Matteotti.
Visitors admired the exhibition of works curated by Remigio Surian in the engaging atmosphere of the upper floors of the Mill in which a group of Polesine artists defined the pictorial vision of a reinvented Giacomo, also recognizable in the enigmatic form outlined by the abstractionism of Lucia Soldà or hidden in the protective structure of the mill designed by the very young Chiara Baldo.
The presence of the Red Cross with a large and welcoming delegation he also offered the event an important touch of value especially in relation to the setting up of the hospital tent of the Great War complete with precious period equipment and meticulously created by Silvino Fregata volunteer of the Red Cross of Bardolino.
Outside the mill, the flow of water that caresses the land surrounding the historic structure strikes the visitor who becomes the protagonist of a time with a thousand faces, bearer of history, characters and events, objects and even foods that visitors can discover in the conviviality offered to those who participate in the events organized here.
