On the occasion of the centenary of the burial of the Unknown Soldier at the Altar of the Fatherland in Rome, Idrovolante Edizioni is publishing a very special book.

Titled “Ignoto Militi”, it is a collection of writings all signed by women authors. “Because if the Unknown Soldier is a son of Italy – we read on the back cover – women are his girlfriends, wives, daughters, mothers. Mothers like Maria Bergamas, who gave the life of her son Antonio to the Fatherland and who was charged with choosing, from eleven coffins of nameless fallen soldiers, the one that was taken to the Vittoriano, in Rome. And which is still there, to symbolize the eternity of the sacrifice of so many young people”.

The corpus of the volume is composed of fourteen stories, "eleven like the Corpses among which that of the Unknown Soldier was chosen plus other stories of Italy yesterday and today, linked by something that transcends time: the love for Italy" explain the curators Cristina Di Giorgi and Bianca Penna. They add: "These stories are a tribute to life, to family, to the Fatherland".

The women who signed the writings of Ignoto Militi, each with her own sensitivity and personal experience, gave life to a mosaic of stories that were all different but united by the same feeling and the desire to pay homage to the man who continues to represent the deepest meaning of Italianness. These are their names: Elena Barlozzari, Carla Isabella Elena Cace, Flaminia Camilletti, Elena Caracciolo, Giorgia Clementi and Aurora Dipalo, Sara De Angelis, Nadia Dell'Arco, Roberta Di Casimirro, Cristina Di Giorgi, Alina Di Mattia, Paola Frassinetti, Ines Pedretti, Bianca Penna, Caterina Rovere, Elena Donazzan and Giovanna Donazzan.

Completed by the preface by Isabella Rauti and the afterword by Alessia Rosolen and enriched by several appendices (among which the one signed by Emanuele Merlino, president of the 10th February Committee, which promoted the campaign to grant the Unknown Soldier honorary citizenship in all the cities of Italy, stands out), the book is currently available on the Idrovolante Edizioni website (http://www.idrovolanteedizioni.it/libri/ignoto-militi) and will soon be distributed in bookstores throughout Italy.