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My poor dreams/

of love blessed /

in the best of joy you perished /

you arose proud but unfortunate /

like birds /

in the woods you perished.

Poveri sogni miei/

d'amor beati /

nel meglio del gioir siete periti /

sorgeste fieri ma sfortunati /

come gli uccelli /

nei boschi siete periti.

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Gesualdo Bufalino, an expert connoisseur of Sicily, wrote that the Sicilies are many, it is impossible to count them all, in Sicily "everything is mixed, changing, contradictory, as in the most composite of continents" ... and again " There is a "babba" Sicily, that is mild…a “crafty” Sicily, that is smart…there is a lazy Sicily and a frenetic one…”; but why so many Sicilies? Bufalino explained “because Sicily has had the good fortune to act as a link over the centuries between the great Western culture and the temptations of the desert and the sun, between reason and magic, the temperatures of feeling and the heat of passion. Sicily suffers from an excess of identity, and I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing." Even Leonard Sciascia, an immense Sicilian thinker, said "I continue to be convinced that Sicily offers the representation of many problems, of many contradictions, not only Italian but also European, to the point of being able to constitute the metaphor of today's world". This start to introduce the character whose life (and violent death) I wish to recall with some of my photographs (except for two images, belonging to the weekly "Epoca"), with information taken both from the WEB and from direct testimonies that I have collected in years, in summary a character who seems to embody the many faces of Sicily, his name is Salvatore Giuliano, known as the Bandit Giuliano; there are many Salvatore Giulianos, it changes according to who knew him, according to the many facts told by others or by himself (in his memoirs), he is described now as a "Robin Hood" with a noble heart, now as a ferocious brigand unscrupulous, but in any case, in this story, the use of all the "adverbs of doubt" that we know is always mandatory, because speaking of him, knowing the real truth is an illusion ... this is a story in which the pain of the many dead is the background. In speaking of him I will try to use almost telegraphic language. Salvatore Giuliano was born in Sicily in Montelepre (November 16, 1922), the son of a farmer who emigrated to America, and then returned to Sicily for the birth of his son; Salvatore soon left school to work in the fields, privately continuing to cultivate his studies. These are the years of the Second World War, the fascist regime has introduced bread rationing (the real problem is the grinding of wheat, with the mills controlled by the army, the Giulianos have a small clandestine mill), the clandestine trade in necessity becomes common, even Salvatore becomes a small smuggler, he is inexperienced when he is stopped with two sacks of wheat by two carabinieri and two country guards, they take everything from him including his documents, a distraction by the guards and quickly Salvatore tries to escape, the a few shots are fired at him, two hit him at his side, a carabiniere approaches him (Salvatore describes what happened in one of his memoirs) who is shot to death by him: from this moment on he will always be the Bandit Salvatore Giuliano ( or Turiddu, which in Sicilian means Salvatore). According to some Turiddu is a hero of the people, he hopes for a civil redemption of the Sicilian people, establishes relations with the political world, with the deviated secret services, with the Sicilian separatist movement whose initials are MIS (Sicilian Independent Movement) of which, also pushed by a colonel of the American army who deluded him that Sicily could be annexed as a state of the U.S.A. , joins his armed wing, the E.V.I.S. (Volunteer Army for Sicilian Independence), fighting with the rank of colonel against the Italian army in the two-year period 1945/46: the EVIS was commanded by the lawyer Antonio Canepa, who was killed on 17 June 1945 in a clash with the carabineer in the town of Randazzo. During this period the legend of the Bandit Giuliano was born, the peasants, the poor people in general, see in him a hope of redemption from a life of hardship and sacrifices, he is seen as a fiery lover with many fleeting stories, with women who join him in his lair by passing "the filter" of his men (he hosted a young Swedish journalist, Maria Cyjliakus, she was interested in interviewing him, with whom he also had a relationship), but he himself could reach to love the women while running many risks: in the collective imagination the idea of a brigand with a kind and good heart was developing, he often gave to the poor what he stole from the rich; but there was the dark and brutal side of his personality, he tended ambushes and assaults on the forces of order, he killed whoever he considered to be an informer of the carabinieri; the bandit was elusive, there were numerous ambushes and roundups from which he and his men managed to escape, indeed, every action carried out by the military was always followed by a retaliatory reaction, with the consequence that the killed soldiers always increased by more. The descending phase of Giuliano begins to appear on the horizon, the M.I.S. enters legality being recognized as belonging to the Sicilian Special Statute, Giuliano does not accept the agreement by continuing with his men to wage war against the state, in 1946 the new Italian government grants a pardon to the EVIS guerrillas, in this way Giuliano loses his army and his role as colonel (thus the female component of EVIS was dissolved too, with about 20 women, his sister Mariannina was also part of it); with the first institutional referendum the monarchy falls, the Republic is born, the peasant movement hopes for change and agrarian reform, the struggle in defense of their rights leads to the killing of trade unionists (Miraglia, Rizzotto, Carnevale) whose instigators will never be discovered ; Giuliano establishes relations with the mafia, meets men of the institutions, leading to suspect that behind many (villainous) actions of Giuliano and behind his death, many responsibilities and mysteries are hidden, on which no light has yet been shed. We arrive on May 1, 1947, in the countryside of Portella della Ginestra near Piana degli Albanesi (PA), there is a large crowd of peasants gathered to celebrate Workers' Day, there are also many women and children, suddenly the The festive atmosphere is dramatically interrupted by the shots of a machine gun and other weapons of various kinds, including the launch of grenades, 11 people remain lifeless on the field (including two children), and many injured on whose number there is no concordance; the massacre began the "crisis of May 1947" with attacks on the headquarters of left-wing parties and labor chambers in the area, the reasons for which would be linked, it has been said ... to Giuliano's aversion to the Communists ... but also to the will of the mafia powers to maintain the old balance in the new institutional framework (editor's note: it seems that Giuliano a Portella only wanted to teach a lesson to Girolamo Li Causi, leader of the communists, who was warned of the ambush, and did not show up in Portella, in my opinion Giuliano's aforementioned aversion to the Communists does not stand up, he who always found warmth, protection and complicity precisely on the part of those peasants who were slaughtered; whoever organized the massacre was a criminal and refined mind, he frightened peasant movements, and at the same time decreed the unpopularity of the bandit Giuliano who saw scorched earth around him: mafia men extraneous to Giuliano's gang equipped with 9-gauge rifles fired, while the men of the the band had 6.5 caliber weapons, just as Giuliano's men did not possess grenade launchers; Giuliano tried to exculpate himself by writing his "Memorial on the events of Portella della Ginestra" in the newspapers, claiming that he was in possession of documents that would have demonstrated who were the real culprits of the massacre). The circle was tightening around Giuliano, the forces of order made use of the mafia to convince his trusted lieutenant Gaspare Pisciotta to collaborate with them, they made use of informants, such as Salvatore Ferreri, known as frà Diavolo, head of the anti-banditry forces was the colonel of the carabinieri Ugo Luca; on July 5, 1950 Salvatore Giuliano was killed, it seems there was a firefight with the carabinieri in the courtyard of the house of the lawyer. De Maria in Castelvetrano (TP), however it is a staging, the journalists who immediately rushed to the place where the body lies notice it, the blood impregnates the undershirt on the back, no blood comes out of several holes, on the side of the arm there is a " laceration of the skin" (as if the limb had been in contact with ice), one of the journalists who notices these and other details, Tommaso Besozzi, writes his journalistic article by titling it "certainly there is only that he died ” (l'Europeo n. 29, year 1950), actually to kill him while he was sleeping with a pistol shot, perhaps stunned by a drug put in the wine, it would have been his most trusted man, Gaspare Pisciotta, who was subsequently arrested, and during the Viterbo trial he would scream from the cage "we were one body, bandits, police and mafia, like the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit" , he is ready to name names, revelations, but he won't have time, inside the Ucciardone prison in Palermo, to deliver a lethal dose of strychnine put in a medicine prescribed for his tuberculosis (not in coffee) he will kill him sooner trying to vomit. The story does not seem to have to end when, following a report from Professor Giuseppe Casarrubea, an important historian, who had Giuliano's body exhumed in 2010 with his complaint to the Public Prosecutor's Office, assuming that the tomb held the corpse of a double, the However, DNA tests would have shown a genetic profile compatible with that of a nephew of Giuliano. On Salvatore's tomb, a month later, the verses sent by letter to his mother by a woman who signed herself “Santuzza” were carved, verses which declared that she had received them personally from her son Salvatore: “My poor dreams/of love blessed /in the best of joy you perished /you arose proud butunfortunate/like birds /in the woods you perished”. Santuzza was the pseudonym of Maddalena Lo Giudice, when she was young she is described as a beautiful, shy, reserved girl, she was the daughter of the Podestà of her town (during the fascist regime, the Podestà was the head of the municipal administration), it seems they met in a hospital in Catania, each visiting an acquaintance of their own, Maddalena would have had from Giuliano: a son (she was subjected to a gynecological examination to ascertain its veracity against her will), a box with valuables, and a memorial, in which Giuliano would have wrote very important things about his relationships with "men of the state and not"; Maddalena later said that she had handed everything over to a trusted person, who would have bricked everything up, later perhaps frightened by the great clamor that had arisen around her, in a journalistic interview she declared that she had dreamed and invented everything… (note of the editor: I have always tried much emotion for this poor woman, it would be interesting to be able to trace a psychological profile, her father was the Podestà of the town, always benefiting from the doubt, as in all this story, people told me that His father as Podestà took away from the poor people even what little they had, who knows if the poor Maddalena fell in love with Giuliano also because he represented her antithesis, giving to the poor what she took away from the rich people...), Maddalena went to give birth in secret from the well-meaning eyes of the town (not being a married woman it would have created a scandal) in Calabria, that son to protect him was immediately placed in an orphanage (all the forces of order in Sicily were looking for the bandit Giuliano, who knows what would have happened if he had come to know of a son of him ..! they would have used it as one does with a lamb tied to a post, waiting for the arrival of the fair…); upon Giuliano's death, this woman was joined by Salvatore's mother (Maria Giuliano Lombardo) and sister (Mariannina Giuliano), to have all that Salvatore had left to Maddalena, who certainly had sworn not to give anyone what she had received from him, certainly until when Maddalena would have kept "the treasure" hidden with her (certainly not the jewels, the true value was her memorial!), no one would have hurt her; however, Maddalena took this secret of hers with her to her grave. In her old age Maddalena lived secluded, she was a solitary type, she had to resort to dialysis for a serious kidney infection, for which she had to be accompanied several times a week by a driver to the hospital, she had severe pain for which she had to resort to powerful analgesics, the only ones who gave her any affection were her many dogs, the only ones who managed to reassure her, she never had the affection of that only son she had from Salvatore, of whom nothing was ever known (there were a couple of characters who declared themselves the children of the bandit, but nothing has ever been ascertained). In conclusion, I learned of a Sicilian film operator, who worked for Incom Week (it was an Italian newsreel, distributed weekly in cinemas), who at the news of the killing of the bandit Giuliano (like many journalists) immediately went to Castelvetrano to the house of the lawyer De Maria, where he allegedly found Salvatore's body, he said that when Salvatore's mother arrived, she kissed him in a heartbreaking, terribly moving way, including the parts covered in blood, that Incom operator said, that the emotion was so great for him to seeing that Mother …he did not have the courage to continue filming: I would like to end by saying that the tremendous pain of that Mother was the tremendous pain of All those Mothers who saw their son (or their husbands) to perish in that so dark not so far period of history of Sicily.

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Scriveva Gesualdo Bufalino, esperto conoscitore della Sicilia, che le Sicilie sono tante, impossibile contarle tutte, in Sicilia “tutto è mischiato, cangiante, contraddittorio, come nel più composito dei continenti”…ed ancora ” Vi è una Sicilia “babba”, cioè mite…una Sicilia “sperta”, cioè furba…vi è una Sicilia pigra ed una frenetica…”; ma come mai così tante Sicilie? Bufalino spiegava “perché la Sicilia ha avuto la sorte di ritrovarsi a far da cerniera nei secoli fra la grande cultura occidentale e le tentazioni del deserto e del sole, tra la ragione e la magia, le temperie del sentimento e le canicole della passione. Soffre, la Sicilia, di un eccesso d'identità, né so se sia un bene o sia un male.” Anche Sciascia, immenso pensatore siciliano, diceva “Continuo ad essere convinto che la Sicilia offre la rappresentazione di tanti problemi, di tante contraddizioni, non solo italiani ma anche europei, al punto da poter costituire la metafora del mondo odierno”. Questo incipit per introdurre il personaggio del quale desidero rievocarne la vita (e la morte violenta) con alcune mie fotografie (tranne due immagini, appartenenti al settimanale “Epoca”), con notizie prese sia dal WEB, sia da testimonianze dirette che ho raccolto negli anni, in sintesi un personaggio che sembra incarnare i tanti volti della Sicilia, lui si chiama Salvatore Giuliano, noto come il Bandito Giuliano; sono tanti i Salvatore Giuliano, cambia in base a chi lo conobbe, in base ai tantissimi fatti raccontati da altri o da lui stesso (nei suoi memoriali), viene descritto ora come un “Robin Hood” dal cuore nobile, ora come un feroce brigante privo di scrupoli, però in ogni caso, in questa storia, è sempre obbligatorio l’uso di tutti gli “avverbi di dubbio o dubitativi” che conosciamo, perché parlando di lui conoscere la vera verità è una utopia…una vicenda questa, nella quale il dolore dei tanti morti, fa da sfondo. Nel parlarne cercherò di adoperare un linguaggio quasi telegrafico. Salvatore Giuliano nasce in Sicilia a Montelepre (il 16 novembre 1922), figlio di un contadino emigrato in America, e poi rientrato in Sicilia per la nascita del figlio; Salvatore abbandonò presto la scuola per lavorare nei campi, continuando privatamente a coltivare i suoi studi. Sono gli anni della seconda guerra mondiale, il regime fascista ha introdotto il razionamento del pane (il vero problema è la macinazione del grano, coi mulini controllati dall’esercito, i Giuliano hanno un piccolo mulino clandestino), il commercio clandestino degli alimenti di prima necessità diviene comune, anche Salvatore diviene un piccolo contrabbandiere, è inesperto quando viene fermato con due sacchi di grano da due carabinieri e da due guardie campestri, gli prendono tutto incluso i suoi documenti, una distrazione delle guardie e lestamente Salvatore tenta la fuga, gli vengono sparati contro alcuni colpi, due lo raggiungono ad un fianco, gli si avvicina un carabiniere (Salvatore descrive l’accaduto in un suo memoriale) che viene da lui colpito a morte: da questo momento in poi sarà per sempre il Bandito Salvatore Giuliano (o Turiddu, che in siciliano significa Salvatore). Secondo alcuni Turiddu è un eroe del popolo, egli spera in un riscatto civile del popolo siciliano, allaccia rapporti col mondo politico, coi servizi segreti deviati, col movimento separatista siciliano la cui sigla è MIS (Movimento Indipendentista Siciliano) del quale, spinto anche da un colonnello dell’esercito americano che lo illuse che la Sicilia poteva essere annessa come stato degli U.S.A. , entra a far parte del suo braccio armato, l’E.V.I.S. (Esercito Volontario per l’Indipendenza Siciliana), combattendo col grado di colonnello contro l’esercito italiano nel biennio 1945/46: l’EVIS era comandato dall’avv. Antonio Canepa, che viene ucciso il 17 giugno del 1945 in uno scontro coi carabinieri nel paese di Randazzo. Durante questo periodo nasce la leggenda del Bandito Giuliano, i contadini, la povera gente in generale, vede in lui una speranza di riscatto di una vita di stenti e di sacrifici, viene visto come un focoso amante dalle tante fugaci storie, con donne che lo raggiungono nel suo covo oltrepassando “il filtro” dei suoi uomini (ospitò una giovane giornalista svedese, Maria Cyjliakus, interessata ad intervistarlo, con la quale ebbe anche una relazione), ma poteva egli stesso raggiungere le amate pur correndo molti rischi: nell’immaginario collettivo si andava maturando l’idea di un brigante dal cuore gentile e buono, egli spesso donava ai poveri quello che sottraeva ai ricchi; però c’era il lato oscuro e brutale della sua personalità, egli tendeva agguati ed assalti alle forze dell’ordine, uccideva chi considerava essere un informatore dei carabinieri; il bandito era imprendibile, numerosi erano gli agguati ed i rastrellamenti ai quali lui ed i suoi uomini riuscivano a sottrarsi, anzi, ad ogni azione condotta dai militari, faceva sempre seguito una reazione di rappresaglia, con la conseguenza che i militari uccisi aumentavano sempre di più. La fase discendente di Giuliano incomincia ad apparire all’orizzonte, il M.I.S. entra nella legalità venendo riconosciuta come appartenente allo Statuto Speciale Siciliano, Giuliano non accetta l’accordo continuando coi suoi uomini a fare guerra allo stato, nel 1946 il nuovo governo italiano concede l’indulto ai guerriglieri dell’EVIS, in tal modo Giuliano perde il suo esercito ed il suo ruolo di colonnello (viene così sciolta la componente femminile dell’EVIS, con circa 20 donne, vi faceva anche parte sua sorella Mariannina); col primo referendum istituzionale cade la monarchia, nasce la Repubblica, il movimento contadino spera nel cambiamento e nella riforma agraria, la lotta in difesa dei loro diritti porta alla uccisione di sindacalisti (Miraglia, Rizzotto, Carnevale) dei quali non si scopriranno mai i mandanti; Giuliano stringe rapporti con la mafia, incontra uomini delle istituzioni, inducendo a sospettare che dietro molte azioni (scellerate) di Giuliano e dietro la sua morte, si celino tante responsabilità e misteri, sulle quali non si è fatto ancora luce. Arriviamo al 1° Maggio del 1947, nelle campagne di Portella della Ginestra nei pressi di Piana degli Albanesi (PA), c’è una gran folla di contadini riuniti per celebrare la festa dei lavoratorI, ci sono anche tante donne e bambini, improvvisamente l’atmosfera festosa viene interrotta drammaticamente dai colpi di una mitragliatrice e di altre armi di vario genere, tra queste anche lancio di granate, sul campo restano senza vita 11 persone (tra queste due bambini), e molti feriti sul cui numero non c’è concordanza; la strage dette inizio alla “crisi del maggio 1947” con assalti alle sedi dei partiti di sinistra e delle camere del lavoro della zona, le cui motivazioni sarebbero legate, si è detto… all’avversione di Giuliano per i comunisti…ma anche alla volontà dei poteri mafiosi di mantenere i vecchi equilibri nel nuovo quadro istituzionale (n.d.r. sembra che Giuliano a Portella volesse solo dare una lezione a Girolamo Li Causi, leader dei comunisti, il quale fu avvisato dell’agguato,e non si presentò a Portella, secondo me non regge la citata avversione di Giuliano per i comunisti, lui che trovava sempre calore, protezione e complicità proprio da parte di quei contadini che furono trucidati; chi organizzò la strage era una mente criminale e raffinata, spaventò i movimenti contadini, e nel contempo decretò la subentrata impopolarità del bandito Giuliano che vide farsi attorno terra bruciata: spararono uomini mafiosi estranei alla banda di Giuliano dotati di fucili calibro 9, mentre gli uomini della banda avevano armi calibro 6,5, così come gli uomini di Giuliano non possedevano lanciagranate; Giuliano tentò di discolparsi scrivendo sui giornali un suo “Memoriale sui fatti di Portella della Ginestra”, sostenendo di essere in possesso di documenti che avrebbero dimostrato chi erano i veri colpevoli della strage). Il cerchio si andava stringendo attorno a Giuliano, le forze dell’ordine si avvalsero della mafia per convincere a collaborare con loro il suo fidatissimo luogotenente Gaspare Pisciotta, si avvalsero di informatori, come Salvatore Ferreri, detto frà Diavolo, a capo delle forze antibanditismo c’era il colonnello dei carabinieri Ugo Luca; il 5 luglio del 1950 viene ucciso Salvatore Giuliano, sembra ci sia stato un conflitto a fuoco coi carabinieri nel cortile della casa dell’avv. De Maria a Castelvetrano (TP), però è una messinscena, se ne accorgono i giornalisti accorsi immediatamente sul luogo dove giace il corpo, il sangue impregna la canottiera sul dorso, da diversi fori non fuoriesce sangue, sul lato del braccio è presente una “lacerazione della cute” (come se l’arto fosse stato a contatto con del ghiaccio), uno dei giornalisti che si accorge di questi ed altri dettagli, Tommaso Besozzi, scrive il suo articolo giornalistico intitolandolo “di sicuro c’è solo che è morto” (l'Europeo n. 29, anno 1950), in realtà ad ucciderlo mentre dormiva con un colpo di pistola, forse stordito da una droga messa nel vino, sarebbe stato il suo uomo più fidato, Gaspare Pisciotta, il quale successivamente viene arrestato, e durante il processo di Viterbo dalla gabbia urlerà “noi eravamo un corpo solo, banditi, polizia e mafia, come il Padre, il Figlio e lo Spirito Santo”, Pisciotta è pronto a fare nomi, rivelazioni, ma non farà in tempo, all’interno del carcere dell’Ucciardone di Palermo, una dose letale di stricnina messa dentro un medicinale prescrittogli per la sua tubercolosi (non dentro il caffè) lo stroncherà prima che possa tentare di vomitare. La storia sembra non dover finire, quando, in seguito ad una segnalazione del professore Giuseppe Casarrubea, importante storiografo, che fece riesumare con un suo esposto in Procura la salma di Giuliano nel 2010, ipotizzando che la tomba custodiva il cadavere di un sosia, il test del DNA avrebbe però dimostrato un profilo genetico compatibile con quello di un nipote di Giuliano. Sulla tomba di Salvatore, un mese dopo, vennero scolpiti i versi inviati per lettera a sua madre (Maria Giuliano Lombardo) di una donna che si firmava “Santuzza”, versi che dichiarava di averli avuti personalmente da suo figlio Salvatore: “Poveri sogni miei d’amor beati, nel meglio del gioir siete periti, sorgeste fieri ma sfortunati, e come uccello nei boschi siete spariti”. “Santuzza” in realtà si chiamava Maddalena Lo Giudice, quando era giovane viene descritta come una bellissima ragazza, timida, riservata, era la figlia del Podestà del suo paese (durante il regime fascista, il Podestà era il capo dell'amministrazione comunale), sembra si conobbero in un nosocomio di Catania, visitando ognuno un proprio conoscente, Maddalena avrebbe avuto da Salvatore un figlio (fu sottoposta suo malgrado a visita ginecologica per appurarne la veridicità), un cofanetto con dei valori, ed un memoriale, nel quale Giuliano avrebbe scritto cose importantissime circa i suoi rapporti con “uomini dello stato e non”; Maddalena successivamente disse di aver consegnato tutto ad una persona fidata, la quale avrebbe murato tutto, successivamente forse impaurita dal grande clamore che si era alzato attorno a lei, in una intervista giornalistica dichiarò che si era sognato ed inventato tutto…(n.d.r. ho sempre provato molta commozione per questa povera donna, sarebbe interessante poterne tracciare un profilo psicologico, suo padre era il Podestà del paese, beneficiando sempre del dubbio, come in tutta questa storia, mi dissero che toglieva ai poveri anche quel poco che avevano, chissà se la povera Maddalena si innamorò di Giuliano anche perché lui ne rappresentava l’antitesi, dando ai poveri quel che toglieva ai possidenti…), Maddalena andò a partorire di nascosto dagli occhi benpensanti del paese (non essendo una donna sposata avrebbe creato scandalo) in Calabria, quel figlio per proteggerlo fu messo subito in un orfanotrofio (tutte le forze dell’ordine della Sicilia cercavano il bandito Giuliano, chissà cosa sarebbe accaduto se si fosse venuto a sapere di un figlio suo..! lo avrebbero usato come si fa con un agnello legato al palo, aspettando l’arrivo della fiera…); questa donna alla morte di Giuliano fu raggiunta dalla sua mamma (Maria Giuliano Lombardo) e da sua sorella Mariannina (Mariannina Giuliano), per avere tutto quello che Salvatore aveva lasciato a Maddalena, la quale sicuramente gli aveva fatto un giuramento, di non dare a nessuno quanto da lui aveva ricevuto, certamente fino a quando Maddalena avrebbe tenuto nascosto con se “il tesoro” (non certo i gioielli, il vero valore era il suo memoriale !), nessuno le avrebbe fatto del male; comunque, Maddalena si è portata con se nella tomba questo suo segreto. In vecchiaia Maddalena viveva appartata, era un tipo solitario, doveva fare ricorso alla dialisi per una grave infezione renale, per la qual cosa doveva farsi accompagnare varie volte la settimana da un autista in ospedale, aveva forti dolori per i quali doveva fare ricorso a potenti analgesici, gli unici a darle un po’ di affetto, erano i suoi molti cani, gli unici che riuscivano a rasserenarla, non ebbe mai l’affetto di quell’unico figlio avuto da Salvatore, del quale non si è mai saputo nulla (ci furono un paio di personaggi che si autodichiararono i figli del bandito, ma non si è mai appurato nulla). Concludo, seppi di un operatore cinematografico siciliano, che lavorava per La Settimana Incom (essa era un cinegiornale italiano, distribuito settimanalmente nei cinema), il quale alla notizia dell’uccisione del bandito Giuliano (come tanti giornalisti) si recò immediatamente a Castelvetrano in casa dell’avv. De Maria, dove avrebbe trovato il corpo di Salvatore, egli raccontò che quando arrivò la madre di Salvatore, lo baciò in maniera struggente, terribilmente commovente, incluse le parti coperte di sangue, quell’operatore Incom disse, che fu talmente grande la commozione che provò nel vedere quella Madre, che non ebbe il coraggio di continuare le riprese: vorrei terminare dicendo, che il dolore tremendo di quella Madre, è stato il dolore tremendo di Tutte quelle Madri che hanno visto perire i loro figli (od i loro mariti) in quel periodo così buio della storia di Sicilia.

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I finally did some corsets for Supia~ The pattern is a bit trickier than the one I did for Soom, this has more parts and I tried making them even more realistic when compared to real corsets.

Corset made for Supia old type female body by me.

Fits these molds:

~Supia old type female body

~Probably similar 58cm dolls

This is a lower cut model, shows more breast and might need an undershirt etc to look decent.

~Corset is made of cotton

~It has white cotton lining to prevent staining

~Full boning

~Adjustable lacing back

~New improved eyelets with washers

via my Instagram (toddg) ift.tt/1Vxu6EW

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I was researching ruffler feet (still want one) and came across a cool trick where you turn the tension all the way up on a long stitch to make ruffles. I suck at pulling them by hand and they always come out bunchy. The tension trick works pretty well for when you just want a little ruffle effect. I still want a proper ruffler though but the pictures I see all make it look like giant ruffles come out - anyone have any input on ruffler feet for doll clothes?

This dress is a simple one, but I like dresses that let me layer them with undershirts for variety. Vigne is wearing this dress over a Jamfancy t-shirt and Princess Sara shoes

She's been living in her uptown world ,i bet she never had a backstreet guy ,i bet her mama never told her why

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Hair * Vive9 WildWild

Jacket * beetlebones

Undershirt * fri.day

Pants * fishy strawberry

Eyes * vive9 from Abbey sundew skin package

Shape * W.H.Y coming soon (my store.)

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Some of the items seen here are typical to the 1970's.

Leaning against the fence is a Raleigh Chopper which was a children's bicycle, a wheelie bike, manufactured and marketed in the 1970s by the Raleigh Bicycle Company of Nottingham, England. Its unique design became a cultural icon and is fondly remembered by many who grew up in that period. The design was influenced by dragsters, "chopped" motorcycles, beach buggys, and even chariots, as can be seen on the centre page of the 1969 Raleigh US catalog.

The lady is wearing a customised tank top that was printed in the holiday resort behind the fence. The tank top is a sleeveless shirt manufactured without sleeves, or one whose sleeves have been cut off. Sleeveless shirts are worn by people of any gender, depending on the style. They are often used as undershirts, are often worn by athletes in sports such as track and field and triathlon, and are regarded as acceptable public casual dress in most warm weather locales.

The lady is also wearing flared Jeans or bell-bottoms. In the 1970s, bell-bottoms moved back into mainstream fashion; Sonny and Cher helped popularize bell-bottoms in the US by wearing them on their popular television show. The trousers were typically flared from the knee down, with bottom leg openings of up to twenty-six inches. Made from denim, bright cotton and satin polyester, they were so popular that they became a symbol of the outlandish and colorful style of the decade.

The vehicle seen here is either a Austin 1100 or Morris 1100. Also known as a The BMC ADO16 (Amalgamated Drawing Office project number 16) was a range of small family cars built by the British Motor Corporation (BMC) and, later, British Leyland. Launched in 1962, it was Britain's best-selling car from 1963 to 1966 and from 1968 to 1971. The ADO16 was marketed under various make and model names, however the Austin 1100 and Morris 1100 were the most prolific of all the ADO16 variants.

Chichester District is a largely rural local government district in West Sussex, England. Its council is based in the city of Chichester.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raleigh_Chopper

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeveless_shirt#A-shirt

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell-bottoms

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichester_District

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMC_ADO16

This will be the attempted beginnings of a Batman movie rogues series. I’ll start with 1989s Batman and end with either 2012s The Dark Knight Rises or 2019s Joker, depending on if I can get my Joker pieces. Hopefully, pictures of 2021s The Batman villains will be out by then. I might be doing this every Saturday and then on Wednesdays I’ll try to throw in something different? I don’t really know I’m bad at schedules!

Anyways here’s my formula:

CMF The Dark Knight Returns Joker hair or the purple fedora front the steamroller set, generic Joker face and torso (the blue undershirt works best though), pink hands, purple legs with dark blue lines with a sharpie or just dark blue legs

So yeah! My first real post! Please leave any thought, tips, suggestions or comments. It would mean a lot! See you later!

Hi loves, Here is my retexture for this round of FLF.

Sophia Crop Top & Undershirt comes with a brand new evil rubber ducky texture for this round.

The Undershirt comes with a HUD to change the textures & the crop top can be worn with or without it.

Thank you so much & don't forget to check out the other amazing stores this round! ♥

-Suko ♥

Hasidic Judaism originated in Eastern Europe (now, Belarus and Ukraine) in the 18th century. Founded by Israel ben Eliezer, it originated in an age of persecution of the Jewish people, when European Jews had turned inward to Talmud study.

This photograph of a Hasidic father and his son, clothed in their distinctive attire, was taken near the Jaffa Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem, Israel. Historically the clothing is of the same style as that worn by most Eastern-European Jews (and non-Jews) over a century ago. The Hasidim have preserved this style to the present day. It consists of a 'kaftan', white undershirt, sash, knee-breeches (halbe-hoyzn), white socks and slippers (shtibblat) though this man is wearing shoes. The fur headdress is called a 'shtreimel'.

This photograph was used as a chapter opener in the book titled 'The Essence of Anthropology' by William Haviland, Harald Prins, Dana Walrath and, Bunny McBride (ISBN-13-978-0-495-80701-8). Published, 2009, by Cengage Learning, Inc./Nelson Education Ltd.

Canon EOS 100D,EF-50mm F1.8 II

not AI

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Skin : Joy 2 in Light - Light Brows | Tres Blah *one eleven exclusive*

Freckles : Freckles | Tres Blah

Teeth : Teeth | SLink

Nails : Burgundy Nail Color | Tres Blah

Eyes : JeJune Hazel Eyes | Tres Blah

Lash Base : Lashes 02 | Mozz

Lash : Daily | Redgrave

Hair : Clover in Honeycomb | Lamb*one eleven exclusive*

Top : Blooming Roses in Bashful | Tres Blah

Undershirt : Cole Boatneck Top in Tobacco | Whippet & Buck

Pants : High Waist Spandex Trousers in Wine | Epoque

Pants Cuff : Pegged Trousers Cuff in Wine | Epoque

Bowtie : Neckbow in Pink | fashionably dead

Belt : Lucid Belt in Tan | fri day

Hat : Gabriel Hat | !Ohmai

Flower : Hair Corsage Bangkok | AtomicBambi

Shoe : British Loafers in Brown | Redgrave

Pose:

flowey *one eleven exclusive*

So far so good... I'm right now on a trip trough Europe by bike with my friends from Cycle Me Home. I joined them in Edinburgh and went by bike through Scotland and England to get the ferry from Newcastle to Amsterdam. It was an amazing trip so far. Scotland and England has such a beautiful landscape. Right now we are in Amsterdam for a few days.

Because there were some people asking me how to prepare for such a trip. I made a bike check.

Check list:

- 8bar KRZBERG V2 prototype

- MISSION WORKSHOP Vandal backpack

- SIDI Spd shoes

- Cratoni Bullet helmet

- 2 Jerseys (fahrtwind Berlin & Cycle Me Home)

- 2 Cycling bibs

- Arm & leg warmers

- Rain jacket ( really important for Scotland)

- Wind vest

- 2 Undershirts

- Pair of Jeans

- Sweatshirt

- 2 T-shirts

- 3 pairs of socks & boxers

- Sunglasses

- Camera

- Towel

- Washing things

- Multitool

- Repair kit

- Air pump

- 2 extra tubes

- Bottle holder

- 2 Cycling bottles

More Infos:

www.8bar-bikes.com

cyclemehome.tumblr.com/

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Happy Easter!

Dress: Pitaya

White lace Undershirt: hand-me-down from a friend

belt: Cactus Flower

AWESOME sandals: Modcloth

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Available in 60 colors with 15 Complete Styles

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Rigged for: Slink M/F, Belleza M/F, Legacy M/F, Gianni, Davis, Maitreya, Reborn, Kupra, Kario, Bebe, Lullabeebs. Tweeneedoo, Tweenster. TD & Unrigged

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Vice Darrius Outfit Fatpack

Comes with Denim, Hoodie & Sweater

Comes with 2 Money Options & 4 Tag Options

Available in 23 Colorways (Pants), 15 Colorways (Briefs), 15 Colorways (Sweater), 3 Colorways (Sweater Undershirt), 25 Colorways (Hoodie), 7 Colorways (Hoodie Undershirt)

Rigged for Legacy, Jake & Gianni

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Flannel: thrifted

Undershirt: Walmart

Skirt: Erin Featherston for Target

Tights: Betsey Johnson, via DSW

Shoes: thrifted

Wanted to focus on the tights and I just kept putting stuff together. I ended up liking the pattern play going on. My first attempt at it but def won't be the last.

So exciting - nearly there!! All recycled fabric today. Wenona shirt and and pink shorts over mended tights and my merino undershirt.

I posted the details up there of what I was wearing in the picture from last night.

P.S. Buy those shorts...they are pretty much AMAZING.

So this is The Question. He's mostly based on the old Justice League cartoon. I took an old figure from the Indiana Jones theme. I painted the undershirt yellow and the tie red with a blue coat over it. Then I painted an Indiana Jones hat blue. And finally I erased the face off of a head to finish it. Let me know what you guys think of it in the comments.

Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) - Canotiers [Rowers] (1877). In a private collection. Shown at the temporary exhibition "Cailebotte Painting Men" at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, October 2024-January 2025.

The curators commented that "Caillebotte's style and framing give the men's bodies a solid physical presence, placing the viewer as close to them as possible, at a time when the explicitly sexualised figure of the oarsman was one of the preferred vehicles for expressions of female desire. (...) Water sports were known to develop a harmoniousmuscle sytructure, enhanced by the simple white knit (then seen as an undershirt).

FOUND THE SUNRISE

Ahem, anyway. It was so very tempting to do one pic for Nightingale and Wulfric just like I did with the twins. But also wrong cause they are not twins. So they got two seperate pics together to signify that they are super close as if they were twins. FML.

Nightingale is the only one who got married off by Pazuzu to secure an alliance. To be fair, she asked him first and he was okay with it (Wulfric was not, he moped around the house for months - and we are talking about a grown man who had a job pretty far away from his mother and her house. Imagine Pazuzu's joy to having a huge bulky blonde man sulking in her shadow and turning sad puppy eyes at her 24/7).

The 'what is what'

Fairyland LTF Juri 2013 with face-up by EchoUndine, eyes from EnchantedDoll, wig by Monique (the famous Jojo cut), dress is the undershirt from my FreakStyle girl, horns are Soom Dolomi/Taco

Fairyland LTF Elf El with face-up by Lina Kröger, ear mod by SilverEyePsycho

Wig by DearMine, goggles from syrinxfox, scarf from Taobao and eyes from LuaGaro

Iplehouse JID Violet with DollLegend Jointed hands, face-up by Pearls of Danube, eyes from DollBakery, wig from eclipse21, outfit/jewelry by nezumitoo

Young Sailor II from Henri Matisse

Date: 1906

Matisse painted The Young Sailor in 1906, at the height of his involvement with the Fauves. The sitter of this picture is an eighteen-year-old fisherman, Germain Augustin Barthélémy Montargès, from the small Mediterranean village of Collioure, near the Spanish border. Against the flat, bright pink background, Germain wears typical fisherman's garb: a navy blue cap, a pullover over a white undershirt and blue-and-pink striped jersey, baggy green pants, green-and-white checked socks, and sturdy, laced-up shoes with rubber soles. His broad face is flat and mask-like, and the contours of his rounded limbs are crisp and defined, creating a sharp contrast to the loose brushstrokes that constitute them. Germain's rather theatrical looks and the work's bold palette, in which the figure's green and blue outfit is set against the pink, candy-colored ground, combine to make this painting one of Matisse's most decorative portraits in the Fauve manner.

Evol

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Here she is! She has to be one of my favorite dolls at the moment. ;) Ever since I saw this specific concept art for Anna, I knew that she had to have a doll. It took me a few months to find the perfect doll for the job, and it was oddly enough already a Anna clone doll from Japan. She had her face repainted with rooted eyelashes, and a custom made dress.Her body was also really, REALLY bad, so she got rebodied onto an obitsu body which is much better. Her dress was my first time making an outfit for this kind of doll, and to be honest, it might be one of the cleanest I've ever made. LOL! The dress is made up of three pieces- a blue undershirt with a fur collar, a tan suede dress that has blue, copper, and white suede stripes which is held on her with a lace up, and a copper suede corset, which is also a lace up. Her dress is lined with copper colored silk. She also has brown suede bloomers, leg wraps, and handmade shoes. Overall, one of my favorite dolls, and I couldn't be happier with her!

Believe it or not, the sheer black dress shirt was purchased online through Macy's. I've always thought the sight of a man wearing a sheer shirt through which you could see his white athletic undershirt is SO SUPER-SEXY! That's the look I'm trying to emulate here. You be the judge as to whether or not I've succeeded.

...it gets chilly in the desert in the winter, especially when you live in a house that was built before insulation was fashionable. Fortunately, I like layering...

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My Hopi hairdo; perfect solution for staticky hair.

Vintage copper & jade green bakelite earrings -- clip-ons, but I find I don't mind clip-ons as my lobes stretch through the years...

Vintage copper and glass bead necklace from India, identical to one my Mom had that I destroyed when I was a toddler...

Red turtleneck sweater that is much too short for my long torso, but it's the perfect red for me...had it forever; can't remember where it's from and I cut out the label...

Black bamboo undershirt.

Ralph Lauren garment that I wear alternately as a skirt or a poncho; I found it years ago at a Ross in Saint Louis -- deeply discounted and stashed in the sweater section.

Black tights cut into leggings.

Kermit green, super comfy pumps by Born.

(Yellow chair I paid $25 for; I brought it home in the front seat of my old blue two seater convertible -- most of it popping out of the roof...)

(My favourite Botello print on the wall behind me.)

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52 weeks of Molly, week 5. SOOC. Wardbrobe Remix.

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skin :: kento

beard :: nanuk

shirt + undershirt :: nanuk

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skin :: body co

beard :: nanuk

shirt + undershirt :: nanuk

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so I tried to channel the sailor theme, but would up closer to cute school girl dresses. oh well, this one literally has a sailor on the pocket, so that counts, right? The sleeves are just an undershirt, this one is sleeveless like Skipper Cookie Time.

still deciding who to take. They all need the dust washed out of their hair and to have their makeup and eyes checked up on. I have noticed some of the girls have mysterious new marks on their legs or old eyechips that have aged not so gracefully. It's amazing what sitting on a shelf for 5 years will do to plastic.

Helmet by Eurotrash, volks boots, skipper shirt

Alright! THey're finally here! Firstly, I'd like to congratulate everyone who participated, since all the customs were fantastic in design and quality. Here are some honorable mentions:

Mr. Ham Custom's Batman

Excellent design. Extremely original and creative.

Maniacal Custom's DOJ Batman

Extremely good paintjob on this custom. Also an excellent representation of what Ben Affleck's suit is.

Justsumkid's Nightwing

Awesome work! I'm really liking the use of the grey and the knee pads.

NOW, FOR THE WINNERS:

1. Julian Alvarez's Nightwing

By far one of the best Nightwing figs I've ever seen. The symbol has great color to it, and the use of the Hydra Agent's head is extremely creative. Great work!

2. Noah Blunden's Batman

Another extremely creative design. The fig draws from various concepts and ideas, and portrays them extremely well. Also, the colors on the armor really blend with the undershirt. Great fig.

3. Zazzles1.0's Nightwing

Another really, really great fig! The sculpting all over the fig is superb, making for a really nice armor look. Also, the use of a custom face and hairpiece really appeal to me. Great work!

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Well, Just You Wait! - Nu, pogodi!, also known as I'll get you! in official translations, is a Soviet and Russian series of animated short films produced by Soyuzmultfilm. In the 2014 all-Russian poll, Well, Just You Wait! won by a wide margin as people's favourite cartoon/animated series of all time.

The series follows the comical adventures of Wolf (Волк), trying to catch – and presumably eat – Hare (Заяц). It features additional characters that usually either help the hare or interfere with the Wolf's plans. The original film language is Russian, but very little speech is used, usually interjections or at most several sentences per episode. The series' most common line is the eponymous "Nu, pogodi!", yelled by the wolf when his plans fail. It also includes many grunts, laughs, and songs.

The Hare, commonly transliterated into English as Zayats (Russian: Заяц), is portrayed as a supposedly positive hero. He is less developed than the Wolf, and most of his actions are simply reactions to the Wolf's schemes. In later episodes, the role of the Hare becomes more active and developed, and he even manages to save the Wolf on several occasions. The Hare is portrayed as a percussionist in a number of episodes. The character was originally voiced by Klara Rumyanova.

The Hare is often mistaken as a female due to his appearance and voice; however, the Hare's sex is never explicitly indicated. The Russian word for hare, заяц (zayats), is of masculine gender. The female equivalent is зайчиха (zaychikha).

The Hare is almost always seen wearing the same green T-shirt over a sleeveless white turtleneck and dark green shorts, unlike the Wolf's ever-varying wardrobe. There are rare exceptions, however: in the prologue of Episode 8, he appears in an ice-skating outfit, and later on in the same episode, he is dressed with intentional absurdity as the grandfatherly Ded Moroz (Grandfather Frost), the silliness of which is only heightened by the Wolf then appearing as his granddaughter, Snegurochka, also known as the Snow Maiden.

The Wolf, commonly transliterated into English as Volk (Russian: Волк), is initially portrayed as a hooligan who eagerly turns to vandalism, abuses minors, breaks laws, and is a smoker. His appearance was inspired by a person the director Vyacheslav Kotyonochkin saw on the street, specifically a man with long hair, a protruding belly, and a thick cigarette between his lips.[4] The character was originally voiced by Anatoli Papanov.

His most common line throughout the series when things are not going as he expected is "Nu, pogodi!" At the end of an episode (and at the end of the pre-title introduction), the Wolf usually exclaims the series' titular phrase, "Nu, Zayats... Nu, pogodi!" which translates as "Well, Hare... Well, just you wait!".

In spite of his rough appearance, many of the Wolf's attempts to catch the Hare are often characterized by unexpected abilities on his part (including figure skating, ballet, gymnastics, and waltzing) for humorous contrast. He can also play the guitar very well and rides a powerful rocker motorbike. In the first episode, while climbing a high building to catch the Hare, the Wolf whistles the popular mountaineer song, "A Song About a Friend" (a signature song of Vladimir Vysotsky). In spite of these talents, most of the Wolf's schemes eventually fail or turn against him.

During the late Soviet and post-Soviet era, however, the Wolf gradually became more buffoonish than menacing. In the last episode (#20), for example, the Wolf is seen chewing a lollipop instead of smoking and his drawing style is reminiscent of new Russian cartoons (Russian: Новые русские мультфильмы) rather than the old Soviet slapstick genre. The Wolf became increasingly timid or even outright cowardly during this time period, contrasting sharply with his initially "macho" persona and actor's voice.

The Wolf's most characteristic piece of clothing is his bell-bottoms which can ambiguously be either part of the naval uniform or the 1970s fashion. He is most often seen in a pink shirt with a yellow necktie, but occasionally (Episode 7) appears in a naval undershirt (telnyashka) and in Episode 8, he appears in drag, impersonating the Snegurochka. In Episode 11 he wears a jacket in the beginning, but soon removes it when chasing the Hare. Not infrequently, he loses most of his clothes during the chase, going on in his chintz underpants only (those are a realistic depiction of Soviet-style underwear), though in episode 6, he retains only his shirt and pulls it down to cover up his "naked" hindquarters. Humorously, all of his clothing below the waist has a special opening for his tail.

In Episodes 1–16 the Wolf's hairstyle is basically unchanged, though in Episode 14 his hair gets briefly done in a style not unlike Elvis Presley's. In Episode 17 he wears a ponytail, and in Episode 18 his forelock is cropped and the mullet is tied into a ponytail. However, in the three final episodes he resumes his earlier hairstyle of episodes 1–16.

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Here she is! She has to be one of my favorite dolls at the moment. ;) Ever since I saw this specific concept art for Anna, I knew that she had to have a doll. It took me a few months to find the perfect doll for the job, and it was oddly enough already a Anna clone doll from Japan. She had her face repainted with rooted eyelashes, and a custom made dress.Her body was also really, REALLY bad, so she got rebodied onto an obitsu body which is much better. Her dress was my first time making an outfit for this kind of doll, and to be honest, it might be one of the cleanest I've ever made. LOL! The dress is made up of three pieces- a blue undershirt with a fur collar, a tan suede dress that has blue, copper, and white suede stripes which is held on her with a lace up, and a copper suede corset, which is also a lace up. Her dress is lined with copper colored silk. She also has brown suede bloomers, leg wraps, and handmade shoes. Overall, one of my favorite dolls, and I couldn't be happier with her!

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The second I lay eyes on this picture, I had to have it. Long johns, undershirts, gitch, towels and whatever else is on that line just shouted out to me. I am also very fond of the window bays on the top floor. Just a strangely familiar feel to this picture. I didn't grow up in an apartment so I can't say why. On the back in very faint pencil it says "apartment on 9th line Seattle.".

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