The Roots of History. Nuto Revelli, images from the Anello Forte

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20 years after the writer’s death; Nuto Revelli. Open-air exhibition in the town of Bergolo.
“A great power of life and representation. A great work of poetry. It is everyone’s story, because in past centuries we were all farmers.”

To give a voice to the poor and less poor woman of the countryside so that she can finally write her story. This book marks another stage in Nuto Revelli’s passionate civil commitment. Seven years of work, hundreds of testimonies.

The centrality of the female figure emerges from these stories, often enthralling, which photograph events, generations, different worlds, and make known what extraordinary variety of meanings words such as work, motherhood, marriage can assume.
Benvenuto Revelli, known as Nuto (Cuneo, 21 July 1919 – Cuneo, 5 February 2004) was an Italian writer, officer and partisan. An effective officer of the Alpini during the Second World War, he participated in the second defensive battle of the Don. Starting in September 1943 he took part in the Italian Resistance, first with his own formation, then joining the Free Italy Band of the Justice and Freedom formations of the Cuneo area.
In 1945 he married Anna Delfino and in 1947 his son Marco, historian and sociologist, was born.
He left the army with the rank of major and became an iron merchant, but began to spend his free time meeting ex-Alpini, ex-partisans, peasants and collecting their testimonies. He therefore dedicated himself to writing, narrating his experiences during the world war in a bare and realistic style, and continued his political commitment to support the values of partisan war and democracy.
Nuto Revelli was a writer and partisan. His first books, all published by Einaudi, deal with his experience as an Alpine officer on the Russian front during the second defensive battle of the Don in January 1943 and his subsequent passage into the ranks of the Resistance: Never Late, diary of an Alpine in Russia, his autobiographical volume The War of the Poor and The Last Front, letters from soldiers who fell or went missing in World War II.
His two most important works are based on long biographical interviews with men and women of the Cuneo valleys and also represent important and pioneering contributions to the affirmation and development of Italian oral history.
Bruno Murialdo began his career as a photographer in 1966 in Alba in the photographic studio of Pietro Agnelli, a former pupil of the Alinari brothers. In 1970 he began his activity as a photojournalist covering Latin America, Central America, Russia and Eastern countries. Having lived his childhood in Chile helps him a lot for the strong bond and mastery of the language, he collaborates with the writer Danilo Manera Jos Mejides to tell the life in Cuba in the 70s, 80s and 90s. Several of his reportages have been published in national and international magazines, to be noted the collaborations with the magazines “Epoca”, “Famiglia Cristiana”, “Linea d’Ombra”, “Oggi” etc. the newspapers that have published various reports or stories are: “La Stampa”, “La Repubblica”, “Corriere della sera” collaborates with Sandro Bolchi and his activity in the creation of several television dramas including “La Paga del Sabato” by Beppe Fenoglio.