This architect, who lived in Rome, was one of the victims of a terroristic attempt in the seventies. Also an architect's memoirs were emphasized by the readers for their social value. She wrote to her lover, a soldier, in the XIX century. The readers liked the Milanese countess's old-fashioned letters.
In her letters, sent to her family, she told about the problems of her lost youth. So, year by year, many texts about personal experience have been stressed by the readers.The two groups of readers pointed out the letters of a young portress from Bologna. The other group was formed by experienced people: the writers Natalia Ginzburg, Luigi Santucci, Corrado Stajano, the historian Paolo Spriano, the sociologist Vittorio Dini, the poetess Vivian Lamarque, Folena, who is one of the most important Italian linguists, scholars, politicians, journalists: Giorgio Galli, Nazareno Fabbretti, Miriam Mafai, Nicola Tranfaglia, Maria Rita Parsi, Pietro Clemente, Mario Isnenghi, Maurizio Maggiani, Dacia Maraini, Beppe Del Colle, Rosetta Loy, Tina Anselmi, Roberta Marchetti, Saverio Tutino.The two groups alternately read the texts for giving a prize to one of them, for pointing out some of the other writings, for cataloguing all them.
One of them was formed by the people on the spot: teachers and attendants, clerks and students, a veterinary, an engineer, a trader and some housewives. In few weeks, more than hundred texts and collections of letters were sent to the Archives. We published in some newspapers brief advertisements a weekly magazine interviewed the director of the Archives. First of all, we thought about a prize to increase the number of the texts. So, new interests in autobiographic writings continuosly rise. Now, we call them “nursery”, because the Archives make the past writings revive, as sprouts which spring up in every season. First, we defined the Archives “the bank of memory”. The Archives not only keep, like a museum, popular writings they also improve their richness in different ways. Also some foreign scholars have been interested in this enterprise. It is a public centre which keeps personal memoirs about one's own life. Forty years after the war, a “house of memory” rose in one of the wings of the townhall. The townhall, with its “L” shape, like an open book on a reading desk, and with its armorial bearings, was one of the few buildings which was not destroyed. Pieve Santo Stefano, a little village in the Tuscan and Emilian Apennines, was almost completely destroyed during the Second World War. There are diaries, letters, memoirs of one's own existence which show everybody's life and also Italian history.
These texts are written by common people.
Infact, in the townhall of Pieve Santo Stefano, there are public archives where autobiographic writings are gathered up. For seventeen years, in each of the four entries of the town, there has been a big yellow sign-board, together with the official toponomy, where is written “The Town of the Diary”. Pieve Santo Stefano is a town in Tuscany which borders on Umbria and Romagna.
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