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Excerpt from Letters and Drawings of Enzo Valentini: Conte Di Laviano, Italian Volunteer and Soldier
When Italy declared war on Austria in May, 1915, Enzo Valentini, who wrote these letters, was a boy of 18. Son of Luciano Valentini, Conte di Laviano, Sindaco of Perugia, and Cristina Valentini-Faina, he came of a stock which on both sides has ever given itself for Italian Unity and Liberty. Being under the age of conscription, without hesitation and with his parents' full consent, Enzo Valentini volunteered in the famous Umbrian regiment, to which the brothers Garibaldi, lately returned from victories in the Argonne, had been assigned as officers. Delicately nurtured, of not very strong physique, and devoted to natural history, literature and art, he gaily endured all the discomforts of the life of a private soldier. After a month's training in Perugia he left for the front, where he remained until October 22nd of the same ear, when he entered into rest.
The letters show that the motive force of his life was Love. Every letter breathes it. Love of country, love of family, love of his fellow soldiers.
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