Having undergone surgery at the age of 98, she had shrapnel from a bombing in 1944. Lina Martelli, 98 years old, originally from Gabbiana di Castellucchio, in the Mantua area, in recent days underwent emergency vascular surgery.

"They tried to remove the bullets from me, but they couldn't," she says. At the end of the war, the marriage and the move to Rivalta sul Mincio: "My husband, Attilio, is no longer here. Today he would be more than a hundred years old"