Adriano Tardelli

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Adriano Tardelli
Adriano Tardelli
Born1896
Capanne di Careggine
DiedFebruary 1, 1945(1945-02-01) (aged 48–49)
Cogna, Piazza al Serchio, Tuscany
NationalityItalian
OccupationResistance activist

Adriano Tardelli (1896 - 1 February 1945) was an Italian resistance activist during World War II.

Tardelli was born in

deserters, partisans, members of resistance groups) crossing with a small group at a time over the Gothic Line. While roped together in the darkness, they crossed the well-known Apennine Mountains
, where he had been born and later lived with his wife and their nine children.

On 1 February 1945, Tardelli was executed in reprisal by the

4th Italian "Monte Rosa" Alpine Division
.

Before being executed, Tardelli took his shoes off and asked them to be given to the poor.

Sources

  • Gabrielli Rosi Carlo, Mariani Sergio (a cura di), Cuore 1944. 100 episodi della resistenza europea, Edizioni Il Centro di Educazione Democratica, Lucca 1975, 422 pp.
  • La Resistenza in Lucchesia: racconti e cronache della lotta antifascista e partigiana, La Nuova Italia, Firenze 1965, 225 pp.
  • Bertolini Renzo, La Resistenza in Garfagnana, Eurograf, Lucca 1975, 135 pp.
  • Zerbini Bruno, Un partigiano isolato, Lalli, Poggibonsi 1984, 187 pp.
  • Pinagli Palmiro, La guerra in Garfagnana. Diario: 30 aprile 1944-22 aprile 1945, Edizioni della Rocca, Castelnuovo Garfagnana 1987, 118 pp.
  • Guidi Oscar, (a cura di) Con la guerra negli occhi. Donne e uomini di Garfagnana raccontano 1943-45, Pacini Fazzi Editore, Lucca 2005, 191 pp.
  • Guidi Oscar, Documenti di guerra. Garfagnana 1943-1945, Pacini Fazzi Editore, Lucca 1995, 198 pp.
  • Federigi Fabrizio, Soldato Hans! A Sant'Anna! Dramma in due tempi e quattro quadri. n. 2, Mauro Baroni editore, Lucca 2000, pp. n.n.