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May 3, 2018 · (Editor’s Note: The picture at the top of this article, of Pino Lella and his son Michael, includes a Spiderman mask next to copies of Beneath a Scarlet Sky. Just one week before my April 12, 2018, visit with Pino on Lake Maggiore (pictured below), British actor Tom Holland, the most recent Spiderman in two major motion pictures, visited with ...
Lella, born in 1926, turning 18 on June 1, 1944, had no military obligation, in fact the notorious Edict Graziani of November 9, 1943, which established the death penalty for those who had not joined the ranks of the new RSI army, in addition to reprisals against families, it concerned only men born in 1923, 1924 and 1925.
Nov 28, 2018 · All the while trying to get a commitment out of Pino’s daughter for me to come and take a portrait of Pino. The family was guarding him not only due to his age but also because of legal concerns since a movie adaptation of Pino’s story was underway. The day before the last available window I finally secured my chance to meet Pino through ...
Apr 27, 2021 · A well-researched historical basis stimulates my mind. So it’s no surprise that the premise of Mark T. Sullivan’s Beneath a Scarlet Sky wowed me. The novel was based on “the true story of a forgotten hero,” Pino Lella, an Italian youth who led refugees over the mountains to freedom in physical acts of courage.
May 3, 2018 · Pino, who turned 92 in June 2018, is the subject of the terrific bestseller by Mark Sullivan, Beneath a Scarlet Sky. His son Michael tells the story here. From Left to Right: Pino Lella, Luigi Manzione, Lawrence Reed—northern Italy, April 2018.
Mar 31, 2018 · It was the summer of 1943 and Lella, then 17 years old, was sitting next his brother, Mimmo, at a movie theater in his native Milan watching the cinematic duo twirl across the screen. For a brief moment, the war that had engulfed Europe and Nazi-occupied Italy was extinguished by pure Hollywood escapism. Then reality came crashing down.
Apr 26, 2021 · That Pino and Mimo Lella did not live at Casa Alpina as the book claims they were. Isman has no memory of them. Neither boy appears in any of the photos Isman has of the years at Casa Alpina.
