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Valentine's Day: 'Do you love me?', the faces of Love in the archives

2023-02-14T10:10:40.300Z


"What are we staring at? Perhaps the bright spot of our future" writes Valeria, from Bologna, to her beloved on November 2, 1941, while Mario, on March 8, 1913, from Somma Vesuviana, invokes on a postcard to his Mercedes simply: " You love Me?"; there is the ... (ANSA)


 "What are we staring at? Perhaps the bright spot of our future" writes Valeria, from Bologna, to her beloved on November 2, 1941, while Mario, on March 8, 1913, from Somma Vesuviana, invokes on a postcard to his Mercedes simply: " You love Me?";

there is the emigrant Ciccillo who, in the language of candor, lets his wife Rosina know from San Paulo in Brazil on December 22, 1898: "You know that I am not good at looking at anyone other than you" and who, in more passionately and directly, as in 1917 the soldier Luigi to Linda, in trying to fix a meeting in a hotel in Naples, claims: "My thoughts are constantly turned to you, to your beauty, to your divine body; your kisses I still feel them burning on my face, and as soon as I think about them I feel my blood boiling in my veins".

These are the feelings put on paper that emerge from some letters kept in the State Archives of Naples as well as from family documents sent for the contest on social media 'Write me about love', conceived by the director, Candida Carrino, in view of Valentine's Day, for communicate how the Archives contain the 'big story' and the micro stories of private and family love.

They will be read by actors on February 14;

the three most exciting ones will become a podcast.

They will be read by actors on February 14;

the three most exciting ones will become a podcast.

They will be read by actors on February 14;

the three most exciting ones will become a podcast.


    "One way - explains Carrino to ANSA - also to give an impulse towards that education to 'sentimentality' in young people, mentioned in the school guidelines, important for trying to answer decisive questions for people's lives: what is love, how to talk about love, how to control jealousy".

A document from the 1700s stands out from the contest in which an ironic woman makes a certain Nicola lose all hope and a letter from 1967, from Gaetano who, from Salerno, writes to 'Miss Maria' all his admiration and love for her.

In the second case, a letter from Ferdinand IV to his wife Maria Carolina, dated 1790, emerges from the folders of the State Archives in the Bourbon collection;

the king, worried about his wife's health, wrote verbatim: "


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Source: ansa

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