{"id":11149,"date":"2025-11-05T12:56:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T11:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuovo.montonein.it\/personaggi-illustri\/aldo-bologni\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T12:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T10:11:09","slug":"aldo-bologni","status":"publish","type":"personaggi-illustri","link":"https:\/\/nuovo.montonein.it\/en\/illustrious-people\/aldo-bologni\/","title":{"rendered":"Aldo Bologni"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOn 5 May 1944, Gabriotti remained in solitary confinement in a cell on the ground floor of the Carabinieri barracks in Palazzo Vitelli in San Giacomo. He was particularly concerned about the risk of arrest facing other anti-fascists. Gabriotti had a friend among the soldiers, a non-commissioned officer named Silvio Serafini, who was also a storekeeper for the GNR (National Republican Guard), and who came to his aid. As soon as he could, Serafini opened the spyhole in the cell and asked the prisoner what he could do for him. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAccording to Serafini, Gabriotti immediately seized the opportunity. \u201cHe begged me to warn Donini the lawyer, to justify with questions of ecclesiastical administration a certain trip they had both made. He then handed me several pieces of paper, asking me to deliver them to his family.\u201d\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThis was very similar to the way in which Serafini testified in the preliminary investigation for the trial: ‘[…] I called to him through the spyhole, telling him that I was at his complete disposal for anything he needed. Gabriotti immediately instructed me to go to his brother-in-law Ciliberti, or rather, to his sister Adelaide Gabriotti.”\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIt was thanks to those notes that Giulio Pierangeli, Giuseppe Nicasi and Maurizio Bufalini, a Carabinieri lieutenant who had not joined the Italian Social Republic and who was secretly making valuable contributions to the Resistance, managed to go into hiding in time. Serafini emphasised, \u201cI could have done much more for him, but he didn’t ask me to.\u201d \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAnother soldier, Virgilio Gentili, also had the opportunity to approach Gabriotti. \u201cI went to see him to say hello, we were friends. He said to me, \u201cHave you seen Lawyer Donini?\u201d I replied yes. \u201cSay hello to him, tell him I’m fine.\u201d He didn’t think he would end up like that. I asked him if he needed anything, he replied no.\u201d\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIn addition to the sympathy felt by some soldiers towards Gabriotti, these episodes highlight how the Citt\u00e0 di Castello GNR (National Republican Guard) was not a strictly disciplined, ideologically motivated corps. So much so that at grassroots level, it came to be known as \u201cBilinci\u00e8na\u201d, a dialect term used to describe a slovenly, bedraggled woman. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOn the night between 5 and 6 May, an event occurred that heightened political and military tension throughout the valley. La Brigata Proletaria d\u2019Urto \u201cSan Faustino\u201d raided Montone to disarm the fascist garrison. All went to plan but as they were withdrawing from the village, they encountered two German lorries heading north that had taken the wrong road. Although unplanned, the firefight between the Germans and the partisans was very bloody. Aldo Bologni was killed. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGabriotti, who had spent the night \u201clike a common criminal\u201d in the \u201cfoul-smelling security room\u201d, and sleeping \u201con a rickety plank bed\u201d was not informed of what had happened in Montone, and of the death of his young friend and colleague. The atmosphere that day at the Carabinieri station in Citt\u00e0 di Castello is described by Captain Alberto Ivano Nardi (born in Ferrara, then 41 years old and residing in the hamlet of Lugnano, near Citt\u00e0 di Castello) who was detained in another cell on the first floor of the building. He said, \u201cThe afternoon was sad, gloomy, interminable. A painful silence reigned in the barracks; officers, non-commissioned officers and many soldiers had gone to Montone, where Nazi-Fascist reprisals were raging\u201d. Nardi, who in 1943 had held the position of Head of the Shooting office of the Central Artillery School located in Citt\u00e0 di Castello, had been arrested in the early afternoon of the previous day in Lugnano. He had been caught distributing stolen wheat to the locals. It had been taken from the stockpile in Cerreto, near Canoscio, by the Monte Santa Maria Tiberina partisans led by Guerriero Baffo. Imprisoned in Citt\u00e0 di Castello, he took advantage of his connections among the Carabinieri to obtain a place in the punishment cell on the first floor of the barracks, with a bed, mattress and blankets. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOn 6 May, he managed to talk to some Fascist soldiers and realised that the events in Montone would exacerbate political tensions, leading to harsh repression against opponents of the Fascist regime and the German occupation.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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