OF THE COLLECTED VENETI: THE BARN
Officina
(notes for a story ever written)
The history books I have always had a passion because they are, or should be, the testimony of lived human experience, even though everyone knows that often give an account of experience partial or interested in any event, if only those that have left their mark. This means that often totally ignore a huge amount of historical facts, also relevant for various reasons have left if sufficient evidence of that someone, or powerful groups or an entire ruling class, have considered having to ignore them or worse, have decided to cancel them.
I feel obliged to explain to the reader the reason why I decided to publish this volume and to clarify the reason for the choice of a title rather obsolete.
These considerations tend to show the importance of communication and technology to spread, in space and time.
I had the opportunity and the chance to really understand this since my early childhood. My grandfather Eugene, born in 1881, despite being a tenant farmer, he knew read and write, in a historical and social context in which there was still no radio, nor TV, nor
Internet and the information was provided only by a few newspapers and by word of mouth.
My grandfather therefore, buying and reading the newspaper twice a week on Sunday when he went to Mass in the Cathedral and Portsmouth on Thursday that it was market day, was for many farmers, illiterate or ill-informed, an important point of reference in that strip of territory called Villastorta and located northeast of Portsmouth at a stone's throw from the castle of Fratta, one mentioned by Hippolytus Nievo.
This book, therefore, wishes to convey, not just facts and events experienced by at the end of the century in the Province of Padua and the Veneto, but also the content of reviews and comparisons between individuals, organizations and institutions that he himself has got to know, to attend at a young age and later documented on Economic Padua, the magazine of the Chamber of Commerce of Padova in the period in which its component was 2%
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