ROOTS - MAMMA, PAPA' & FIGLIO DELLA LUPA

SOME MORE SNAPSHOTS FROM GIORGIO'S YOUTH

Giorgio, like all children of his generation, was a Figlio della Lupa. It was a kind of Italian and Fascist scout organisation and any child who went to elementary school was automatically enrolled in the movement, in order to become a proper little Fascist. Here he is aged about 6, on his father's police motorbike (see the photograph of his father escorting Mussolini & Hitler in 1938 published in the post here of 15th May 2015).

The little Giorgio Quintini and his adoring father Adolfo in 1937 on Monte Mario, Rome. Presemably the photograph was taken by one of Giorgio's aunts, who would have been the sidecar passenger with him.

Emilia-Bianca Marini in Quintini nel 1911 (foto, Marino, Ancona)

This is one of the few remaining photographs of Giorgio's mother, Emilia-Bianca, whom he never knew. Here she is 18 years old. Giorgio was her only child and aged 41, she died in the first year of his life, leaving the female influences in his house to be those of his maiden sisters-in-law. Emilia-Bianca was the daughter of Giuseppe Marini and Giovanna Ricciardi. She was born in 1893 and died in 1934. Although she was reputedly from Naples, this photograph from 1911 and the fact that in 1923 her university thesis was published as a book in Ancona suggests that she too was from that city, or at least lived there.

One of the aunts who tried to bring up a spoiled only child.