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Italia

title: THE BOY WHO MISSED IN VIAREGGIO, DISC 1

subject date: 2025-09-03

caption: HISTORY OF THE SONG "Il Ragazzo Scomparso a Viareggio" (The Missing Boy in Viareggio), the first album about a crime case, recorded by Sicilian singer-songwriter and storyteller Franco Trincale (September 12, 1935) with lyrics by Severino Cagneschi (1901-1969), a popular poet and storyteller from Maremma. The controversial case, which involved the first child kidnapping in Italy (Ermanno Lavorini, March 23, 1953-January 31, 1969) for ransom, took on political overtones during the investigation, complicated by misdirections and cover-ups, with false accusations made by witnesses/defendants against Socialist members of the municipal administration and allusions to an alleged connection with pedophile and homosexual circles. However, the trial, concluded in the Supreme Court of Cassation in 1977, confirmed the motive for the kidnapping: the financing of subversive groups of the far-right monarchist movement. In the initial stages of the sad story, before the victim's body is found, Trincale urges the kidnappers to return the boy to his family. The illustration shows a close-up of the missing twelve-year-old and, alongside him, a pair of canine officers engaged in the search. Cover of the 45 rpm record, Fonola label, Italy, 1969.

category: HIS

copyright: © Fototeca Gilardi

copyright status: Copyrighted Work

country: Italia

credit: Fototeca Gilardi

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Creation date: 2025-09-01 00:00:00

object name: 78536

priority: 0

multiplying price: 1.00

pricing: default

continent: Europa

image century : XX

image epoch: Anni Sessanta

licence: RM

subject century: XX

subject epoch: Anni Sessanta

technique: Copertina

id: 47762

file name: FSNgilardi_78536.jpg

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