Francesco Crispi was born in Palermo on February 1, 1918 by Salvatore and Erminia Orestano.
second son, soon became the first of the siblings because of the untimely death of his brother Andrew.
Just a few years of each other came to his brothers: Joseph, Louis, Maria Annunziata.
Crispi Salvatore (the grandfather "Toto) was a man of great and impressive. A handsome man of fair complexion and eyes blue board. In his youth he had lived - according to what my father told me - as a young gentleman. " The father (Francis), in fact, being - though not aristocratic - a wealthy land representative of the bourgeoisie of the time, owned a farm which gave him the income sufficient to lead a comfortable life and to allow it to his children.
My grandfather, a young man, had their own personal gig (which would be like owning a small smart or spiderina, today) and made the good life.
Then his father, quickly, he lost everything in the game and dragged the family on the brink of economic collapse.
The grandfather, by then, had to make do for a living. Mise
from the buggy and the life of leisure, and managed to enter the Railways State, where he worked until retirement.
In 1960, on the occasion of the centenary of the Unification of Italy, was awarded by President of the Republic, Leone, with the title of "Knight of the work."
Alone, Grandfather - with his hard-work sustains the whole family, since her grandmother - as was customary at that time - not only worked but took care of housekeeping and upbringing of their children .
These are the things that many times my father told me when I was little: I do not think that ever went into more details, but then, then I was too small to be able to do.
also told me that his grandfather (who thought he was referring to his father's father) was a great eater and that he died of indigestion, for greedily swallowed an entire basket of freshly picked figs that had been brought from the countryside freshly picked.
Instead, Grandma Erminia (whom everyone called Grandma "Ia") belonged to the family Orestes, too numerous and rich. Fausto's brother, a physician-surgeon, in fact, had founded a nursing home (the "Clinic Orestano"), another brother Francis had devoted himself instead to the study of legal philosophy and moved to Germany to continue his preparation , as philosophers they used to do in those days.
from Germany (Leipzig and surroundings), Francesco continiuo sent a postcard to her grandmother, where, in every available blank space, fine and dense with writing, he told his beloved sister what he had done and seen.
completed the picture his sister Susanna, strong-willed and determined that he died almost a century later.
Fausto (physician-surgeon and founder of the Clinic Orestano) being very culturally open to the fashions of the time (they were the first of Novencento and that was the period of "discovery" of the mountain and the start of "Holiday") supported by Susanna extremely resourceful, imported these new enzymes in Sicily, leading a band of fervent followers, founded the Club Alpino Siciliano (CAS), identifying the first mountain in Madonie above Collesano (the first step of the retreat Piano Zucchi).
But this is a whole other story, though - with regard to my father - the trajectory of the CAS incrocierà later with his life, generating a large and eviscerated in his passion for walking in large landscapes Alpine and our mountains.
second son, soon became the first of the siblings because of the untimely death of his brother Andrew.
Just a few years of each other came to his brothers: Joseph, Louis, Maria Annunziata.
Crispi Salvatore (the grandfather "Toto) was a man of great and impressive. A handsome man of fair complexion and eyes blue board. In his youth he had lived - according to what my father told me - as a young gentleman. " The father (Francis), in fact, being - though not aristocratic - a wealthy land representative of the bourgeoisie of the time, owned a farm which gave him the income sufficient to lead a comfortable life and to allow it to his children.
My grandfather, a young man, had their own personal gig (which would be like owning a small smart or spiderina, today) and made the good life.
Then his father, quickly, he lost everything in the game and dragged the family on the brink of economic collapse.
The grandfather, by then, had to make do for a living. Mise
from the buggy and the life of leisure, and managed to enter the Railways State, where he worked until retirement.
In 1960, on the occasion of the centenary of the Unification of Italy, was awarded by President of the Republic, Leone, with the title of "Knight of the work."
Alone, Grandfather - with his hard-work sustains the whole family, since her grandmother - as was customary at that time - not only worked but took care of housekeeping and upbringing of their children .
These are the things that many times my father told me when I was little: I do not think that ever went into more details, but then, then I was too small to be able to do.
also told me that his grandfather (who thought he was referring to his father's father) was a great eater and that he died of indigestion, for greedily swallowed an entire basket of freshly picked figs that had been brought from the countryside freshly picked.
Instead, Grandma Erminia (whom everyone called Grandma "Ia") belonged to the family Orestes, too numerous and rich. Fausto's brother, a physician-surgeon, in fact, had founded a nursing home (the "Clinic Orestano"), another brother Francis had devoted himself instead to the study of legal philosophy and moved to Germany to continue his preparation , as philosophers they used to do in those days.
from Germany (Leipzig and surroundings), Francesco continiuo sent a postcard to her grandmother, where, in every available blank space, fine and dense with writing, he told his beloved sister what he had done and seen.
completed the picture his sister Susanna, strong-willed and determined that he died almost a century later.
Fausto (physician-surgeon and founder of the Clinic Orestano) being very culturally open to the fashions of the time (they were the first of Novencento and that was the period of "discovery" of the mountain and the start of "Holiday") supported by Susanna extremely resourceful, imported these new enzymes in Sicily, leading a band of fervent followers, founded the Club Alpino Siciliano (CAS), identifying the first mountain in Madonie above Collesano (the first step of the retreat Piano Zucchi).
But this is a whole other story, though - with regard to my father - the trajectory of the CAS incrocierà later with his life, generating a large and eviscerated in his passion for walking in large landscapes Alpine and our mountains.