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"The hits with the cane on the white rocks were the only noise that accompanied the uncertain steps of Giuseppe Ungaretti, almost eighty years old, who returned to the Karst for the first time in fifty years since the Great War. It was 20 May 1966, more than fifty years ago, and those who accompanied him did not dare to interrupt his silence. The poet of very few words looked around, laid his eyes on the same peaks and trenches in which half a century earlier he had seen the stone become red in blood and in the nights to keep him company was the companion massacred with his mouth grinding at the full moon (Vigil). In the end he had shaken his head incredulous: It's incredible, this is no longer the Karst where I fought... today it looks ridiculous, at that time there was no leaf! From the winter of 1916 to May 1966 it was not only spring that transformed the landscape, but the awareness - that day even stronger - of the war as useless madness."

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This is a project developed for the exam of Knowledge Organization and digital methods in the cultural heritage domain @DHDK Unibo. See more about the students behind VigiLOD.