The last letters of Nicola & Bart George Boatti Few minutes have been being departed for midnight, when, August 23 rd 1927, on death row of Cherry Hill, the lights that illuminate the claustrophobic environments of the penitentiary of state of the Massachusetts tremble. For some endless seconds they seem next to go off. Then they take back him. One, two, three times. And the sign that the electric chair is to the work: the sentence is performed against the anarchists Bartholomew Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco, accused of having killed two people during a happened robbery, in the 1920 spring, to South Braintree, in the outskirts in Boston. Since the arrest, May 5 th 1920, two Italians are pronounced innocent. Against the capital punisment that strikes them they have been picked, all over the world, 50 million signatures. And figures of I detach of every line up, inside and out the United States. from John Dewey to Romain Rolland, from Stefan Zweig to Maksim Gorkij, from Benedict Croce to Bertrand Russel - you/they have repeatedly asked that in their name the trial was referred, acquiring her remarkable tests able to excuse them. It doesnt complete the confession of the young Portuguese jailbird Celestino Madeiros. the third convict to climb on the electric chair in that 23 August of the 27. that arrested in November of 1925 it admits the share to the robbery of South Braintree excluding however every involvement of two Italians. Also actually beating himself/herself/itself to the last one to make to prevail the truth Sack and Vanzetti - target of fallacious recognitions orchestrated by the investigators, ignores the testimonies to defense harvests among his/her own fellow countrymen (is careful to the dagoeses that are compact the accuser Katzmann tells the jurors, allertandoli to the distrust toward Italians, the dagoes note), I mocked their valid alibis. they realize to be fallen hostage of a hard political opposition, ethnic and of class. Sacrificial victims of a social conflict that in that years, in USA, it often flows in episodes of chilly violence: where to the employment of armed teams from the firms he responds with as many hardness from the workers, grafting a cycle of repressions that you/they mock every legality and of provocations that stamp on every humanity. And the case, to few days from the official incrimination of Sack and Vanzetti, of the anarchic bomb that explodes in the heart of Wall Street provoking 33 corpses and two hundred wounded. A few months before an anarchist, Andrew Salsedo, friend of two Italians, while you/he/she was illegally being held back by federal agents, flies down from a window of the 14° floor of a center of the FBI. Of all this, and above all of their lives and of the judicial story that concerns them, he/she speaks, with great strength documentary and fulminating immediateness, the beautiful book that, taken care of from Lawrence Tibaldo and with the preface of Furio Colombo, it picks up of Nicola Sacco and Bartholomew Vanzetti Letters and writings from the jail, publishing Claudiana. Page after page they circulate the so different characters, also in the story that unites them of Sack and Vanzetti. Cobbler, married and father of two children, Nick Sack, sensitive and in love of the nature, native of Torremaggiore in the they shape, where you/he/she was born in 1891. Pescivendo. but thousand other jobs precedents, in a sort of untiring experience of worker temporary shutters litteram. Bart Vanzetti, intelligent autodidactic and of great communicative ability, catapulted by the native Villafalletto, in the cuneese, before in New York and then in Boston. The reconstruction that emerges from these pages goes well beyond the though illuminating and touching epistolario in which are found you sprout him intense to which poetically Joan Baez has drawn, when with Ennio Morricone you/he/she has created the sonorous column of the film devoted to Sack and Vanzetti, in 1971, from Giuliano Montaldo. Besides the letters written in the seven years in jail they are added you in fact biographical self-portraits, spread out remarkable articles for the vast front of publications and organizations that fight for their liberty, as well as testimonies of those people. a lot of women, different characters in the illuminated Boston. that they will be to their side. Actually to that evening of August in which, to Cherry Hill, the lights seemed to go off. Following some letters from: Nicola Sacco, Bartholomew Vanzetti, Letters and writings from the jail, Claudiana, edited by Lawrence Tibaldo Devil and holy water Dear Virginia MacMechan, a player of sweater and tennis among my friends! And a reconciliation of the devil with the holy water! For the truth, I would never have thought that a thing of the kind was possible, but it is him/it. Patience. Few years ago, when I imagined this world as a college of rascals, I looked at the players of these sports with the most severe and terrible of the looks. But now, that experiment the divine innocence of their world, beh, looks now at them in different way. Bartholomew Vanzetti from the jail of Charlestown September 6 th 1923 in Mrs Virginia MacMechan, of Sharon, Massachusetts that for big part of the six years of imprisonment it gave him lessons of English Nick refuses the petition Dear Mary Donovan, .la petition to the governor for me is splendid from the legal and satisfactory point of view on the plan of the principles. Nevertheless Nick has refused to sign her/it despite all of our reasons and reasonings. They are two weeks that I insist with him. I am tired and without hopes. These seven years have left the sign on him and it seem useless to try to make him/it reason, I/you/they are upset indeed by this situation, because it bothers me to be in disagreement with him on a public and important matter. For some aspects Nick is right, there are all the motives to try distrust, pessimism and contempt for every further appeal after so many are introduced in vain. Bartholomew Vanzetti, from the jail of Dedham, May 3 rd 1927 to Mary Donovan, removed few weeks by his/her charge of inspector of the Massachusetts Department of Labor and before Industries because involved in the country for the two Italian anarchists Warm, lack of air Here we have some air, light, a piece of earth and sky to be contemplated and the joy of a hour of sun and open air in the courtyard, and also some visitor the week. The death row is an ugly place in all the seasons but. without windows, without air and without light. it is terrible when it is warm. A summer, memory, a convict waiting for his/her own destiny was kept there and we felt that some watches had fainted because of the warm one and of the sense of suffocation. If we remained here we would not suffer so much, but if we were transferred there we immediately would agonize for the warm one and the lack of air. Bartholomew Vanzetti to Leonard Abbott, July 25 th 1927, from the jail of Dedham They are of the assassins My darlings friends and companions, in the cell of the death row inmates we have just been informed from the committee of defense that the governor Fuller has decided to kill ourselves. This news doesnt catch because we know that the capitalistic class doesnt have pity for the good soldiers of the revolution. We am fierce to die and we will fall as all the anarchists you/they must fall. It now touches to you brothers, companions. As I have told you yesterday, only you can save us, we dont have any trust in the governor, because we have always known that the governor Fuller, Thayer and Katzmann are of the assassins. Cordial and brotherly regards to everybody, Nicola Sacco, August 4 th 1927 In the game of the happiness My dear child and companion, be strong to be able to console your mother, and when you will want to make her forget the discouraging loneliness I want to tell you that that I did me. Hands to take her/it a long walk in the country, you gather some wild flowers here and there, rest you to the shade of the trees. I am certain that she will enjoy of it and also you will be happy. But always remembered, Giving, in the game of the happiness, not to take everything for you, but you go down a step and it helps the weak that ask help, it helps the persecuted ones and the victims because they are the your best amici.Ins this struggle of the life you will find a lot of love and you will be beloved. Nicola Sacco to the Giving child, August 18 th 1927 Sacrificed to a ragion of State My Giving darling, your father is not a criminal but the bravest man that I have ever known. One day you will understand what I am about to tell you, That your father has sacrificed everything how much of darling and of sacred is for the heart and for the soul in name of his/her faith in the liberty and in the justice for all. we are not criminal, you/they have condemned us with a plot; you/they have denied us a new trial; and if we will be executeds after seven years four months and seventeen days of inexpressible tortures and injustices it is because we were for the poor men and against the oppression of the man from the man. The documents on our case that you and others you will pick up and you will preserve they will show that your father and I have been sacrificed to a ragion of State. Bartholomew Vanzetti to Giving Sack, August 21 st 1927
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