Catalogue Number
NMLH.2022.134.3
Object Name
Poster
Title
Pietro Nenni portfolio - part three:
first experiences of struggle
People
Pietro Nenni
Date
1991
Description
This poster is part of a portfolio about Pietro Nenni. This is the third part. On the left of the poster there are two large black and white photographs. The top photographs shows a group of children, with a white circle around the person in the centre; this is Pietro Nenni. The second photograph, underneath the first, is a photograph of Pietro Nenni as a young man; he is wearing a suit jacket and glasses. Next to the top photo there is some text in Italian. The English translation is as follows - "<<The ten years of the orphanage were the irrevocable plague of my life. To this claustration I owe a certain riot complex that has not left me there. My first encounter with politics took place when I was seven, in 1898, at the time of the big riots that took place in Italy against dear life. Well, coming from school, I saw a spectacle that is completely new to me: on the one hand a crowd of workers, housewives, on the other the cavalry battalion of Faenza pride of the nobility and the bourgeoisie. The charge was ordered. Wounded, bruised, screams ... In front of that spectacle, without anyone explaining anything to me, I already knew who I was with, that I was with those workers, that I was with those women, that I would have lived my life in union with them. .. Ten years later joining a strike earned me the dismissal from my modest job. Shortly after, participation in an anti-clerical demonstration earned me the first two days in prison. Since then my destiny was drawn: I would have been a propagandist, indeed an agitator.>>" The bottom right of the poster has smaller red text in Italian, translating to "above: Pietro Nenni in 1903 in an orphanage. Below in a photo from 1914. Nenni in that year and among the promoters of the red week in ancona." There is a small red number three on the top right of the page, indicating this is the third poster in the portfolio.
