Simone Pianetti
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[edit] Early life
Simone Pianetti was born in Camerata Cornello in 1858.
At a young age, he attempted to kill his father due to a legacy question, but he missed his target. For unknown reasons he was not charged and in an agreement with the local chief of the Carabinieri , he left Italy and went to the United States of America. After some years on the other side of the Atlantic, Pianetti, who failed in his American dream, understood that the States was not the right place for him. He returned to Italy with a ticket paid by his father. In his village, Simone married a woman named Carlotta who gave birth to 9 children.
[edit] After returning from the States
In his native village, Pianetti decided to open a small restaurant where the people were also allowed to dance. Because the local pastor and other church people did not agree to the fact that there was dancing in Pianetti's restaurant, the municipality forced him to close down the restaurant. After that, Pianetti decided than to open a mill that used electric power, but also was unsuccessful in this. Pianetti was also the only one in the village who did not attend church on Sundays.
Because of these facts, he had grown to think that everyone in Camerata Cornello hated him, which led him to his spree.
[edit] The Spree and Aftermath
In the morning of 13 July 1914, Pianetti took his rifle and shot and killed 7 people, including:
Domenico Morali, a MD
Abramo Giudici, the manager of the municipality, and his daughter Valeria.
Giovanni Ghilardi, a shoemaker.
Stefano Filippi, the shepard of the parish
Giovanni Giupponi, a lay man.
Caterina Milesi, a farmer of Camerata Cornello.
Soon after the killing, Pianetti left his village and reached Monte Cancervo , where he lived for some days, despite a search composed of 200 people from Carabinieri, the Polizia di Stato and a company of the 78th infantry regiment. Pianetti shot some bullets against some Carabinieri in order to flee into a mountain zone near the villages of Olmo al Brembo and Cassiglio. He was never arrested and his body was never found.
[edit] Notes
Pianetti became an hero to many anarchists, because he fought against the power of the Roman Catholic Church in the Brembo river valley.
The bishop of the Bergamo, Giacomo Radini-Tedeschi did not celebrate the funerals of the killed people because he was ill at the moment of the mass murder, but the funerals were attended by his secretary, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli.
[edit] Source
Storia della Valle Brembana IL NOVECENTO by Felice Riceputi
