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Our next posting, Kigoma, is the one that stands out in my mind as the most exciting. My memories of my three years there, from when I was four to when I was seven, fill me with a sense of freedom, of space, and of the beginning of my independence. ... Read more

We went to London in October 1957, when my father started his six-month course for his Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene at the University of London. An English friend in Tanganyika found us a house in Bromley: it was a sort of exchange - the ... Read more

So the young family returned to Italy on leave. Imagine the changes in the three years since the young couple had left Abruzzo. The island had a new hospital, which functioned well. Ugo had encountered diseases he had never met in his previous postin... Read more

Ugo was - and still is - a man of many talents, and a perfectionist. He made most of the furniture for the house, as well as cots for newborn babies at the hospital. He drew accurate copies of cartoon characters to decorate his own children's room. A... Read more

After Silvia's birth, preparations began for what had been Ugo and Maria's dream for several months. Maria had a cousin in what was then Tanganyika (now Tanzania), a mandate under British administration in East Africa. ‘Come!' he wrote to them.... Read more

The land around Abbateggio was rugged, and the villagers' livelihood depended on a few chickens and goats. There was no inside toilet, electricity, heating or running water, and few roads: people generally moved about on mules. The village had just ... Read more

In November 1947, a young man travelled a hundred and twenty miles east from his home city of Rome to the small village of Abbateggio in the Abruzzi mountains. He came from a humble family and was the second eldest of seven siblings. At twenty-three,... Read more