A fall that cost her to break eight ribs and that has now forced her to a wheelchair: because of that episode three years ago Franca Valeri can not get up anymore. Lucidity is not lacking, but words must be “filtered” one by one to be fully understood. On her neck she always wears a small star of David, a gift brought to her from Jerusalem by Stefania Bonfadelli (her adopted daughter). In the interview released at Corriere della Sera he told what he thinks was the worst moment of his life: “Dad was Jewish. I remember when she read the news of the racial laws in the newspaper and cried“. She prepared the exam from home, as a privatist. She went to Parini and tried to give the exam to Manzoni hoping that they wouldn’t notice:”They didn’t notice. Italy has always been a little inefficient“.
The actress made it known that she had personally gone to Piazzale Loreto to look at the corpses of Benito Mussolini and of Claretta Petacci hanging upside down: “My mom was desperate to know me around alone. In those days in Milan there was still shooting in the street. But I wanted to see if the Duce was really dead. And do you want to know if I felt pity? No. No mercy“In his opinion, it is now convenient to judge remotely, given that we are experiencing firsthand suffering:”We must have experienced them, things“.
Late youth
His youth was late: it began on April 25th. But he stressed that at that time in Italy everything seemed feasible. Thanks to the study of French and English “imposed” by his father, he went to work on the American command as an interpreter: “I couldn’t wait to come back to tell him that I wanted to be an actress. Obviously, Dad was against it. He hoped that I would spend my life painting“.
Yes, because his father Luigi Norsa – engineer at Breda – and his brother Giulio fled to Switzerland a few days before the war, with the family jewels sewn into the coat that they would later sell to try to survive. The man was convinced that there was no danger to the girl or his wife, but to the arrival of the Nazis Valeri was forced into hiding. And he took the opportunity to read The research by Proust: “Without the war, perhaps I would never have been able to end it“.
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