Yesterday at Villa d'Almè Battista Capelli's funeral, led the training on May Day Green Flames'
Immortal with tens of scatti la lotta armata nelle valli, soldati e mezzi militari. Ha lasciato un diario
Immortal with tens of scatti la lotta armata nelle valli, soldati e mezzi militari. Ha lasciato un diario
La «Preghiera del ribelle» e un intenso applauso hanno dato ieri pomeriggio – nella chiesa di Villa d'Almè – l'ultimo saluto al comandante Velio, il partigiano Battista Capelli che dopo aver trascorso anni di sofferenze e stenti sui fronti russi e jugoslavi, ha dato vita nel 1944 alla formazione partigiana «Primo Maggio Fiamme Verdi», in azione tra la Valle Taleggio, l'alta Valle Seriana e il passo di Zambla.
Con Velio, che ha vissuto da protagonista la lotta di liberazione dal nazifascismo nelle valli bergamasche, se ne è andato anche un altro pezzo di storia partigiana. «Dobbiamo be able to read the story - he began his homily Father Enzo Viscardi, who concelebrated with the parish priest, Father Raphael Cuminetti - even through the people who made the history of our society. Baptist has always pursued the values \u200b\u200bof freedom, justice and peace, also giving a lot to our community with its long life lived to the full. "
Battista Capelli, class 1916, was a native of San Salvatore Almenno. He was only 21 when the day of his birthday, in 1937, was drafted in the second regiment of the Royal Horse Artillery Italian army. "He left for Ferrara - recalls his wife Louise Pesenti - and after several years of career military, in April of 1941 he was sent on the war fronts in Russia and Yugoslavia, from which he returned only in 1943. "
agonizing years, including hunger, fatigue and suffering, which has managed to document hair with a box camera he always carried with him. Hundreds of shots collected in a book, given to the press in 2005, depicting soldiers, landscapes, military and camps, women and children suffering faces, but also moments of the partisan struggle in the Bergamo valleys.
The camera has been the constant companion of the Baptist hair, but the pictures are not the only evidence that bequeaths to posterity. "His memory - say the daughters Silvana and Elizabeth - will be kept alive by a diary guerrain which reported everything that was going around and travel he did. He pinned everything on the notebooks blacks who had always kept with care, and has contended himself with an old typewriter. " In his diary
Baptist reported in detail every event that involved him. Like when you just come back from the front gave birth to partisan "May Day Green Flames' with the support of some fellow soldiers of the Valley Imagna. "At the end of the spring of 1944 - remember the eldest daughter Wilda - our father was ordered to go to Valley High Taleggio. He got into a bike and they waited for the launch of food, clothing and weapons from the Anglo-American air.
Then he was assigned to the area and the upper Valley Seriana Zambla.
is where the Baptist, as the battle of Velio began guerrilla warfare, which he continued until the Liberation, despite death threats to his family and the arrest of his sister Mary. His hiding place was never revealed: April 25, 1945 Velio managed to reach Bergamo and pull between two wings of the crowd in front of the prefecture.
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