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title: THE TALE OF LITTLE VETRAIO

subject date: 2016-01-31

caption: CRAFTS Carlo Nicco illustration (1883-1937) for his novel "The story of the small glassmaker" Olimpia De Gaspari: "God, God! So we had to be like them? ..."; the two brothers enter the furnace, and they see the older kids handle the molten glass masses between the stinging fumes. It is a harrowing tale of misery: hoping to give their children a better future, a fisherman from grace entrusts her two children to a French smuggler without scruples, who promises to use them in its glassware. The two boys, however, are ruthlessly exploited, so that soon one gets sick and dies. The other can luckily escaped and returned to Italy. Publisher Paravia, Turin, 1934.

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country: Italia

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continent: Europa

image century : XX

image epoch: Anni Trenta

subject century: XX

subject epoch: Anni Trenta

technique: Illustrazione

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file name: FSNgilardi_52308.jpg

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glassstolen childhoodmistreatmentKingdom of Italyworkingchild exploitationliteraturechildhoodfictionpopular novelcomes to childrentrafficking of childrenseparationsorrowtortureemigrationemigrantsItalyindustrychild laborglasswareO. De GaspariNicco C.childrencraftsOlimpia De GaspariCarlo Niccohotfurnaceblowblowerfusion