In Memory of Francesco della Scala Comm given in full as written in the book entitled
In memory of
Comm FRANCIS SCALE
RECALLING THE FRANCIS SCALE
You fallen - in effect the years - in the breach, as it's meant to fall a fighter race.
Because this man - whose life was a mission of love, sacrifice, sacred orifice for his homeland - this hardening of the real fighter in over 40 years of public life knew no stasis, not met rest, knew no defeats - even in the political battle now, now in administration, also for the regeneration and ascension construction, hygiene, morale of his native town and its mandate.
I think it is a unique case, rather than rare, the public life of Francesco Della Scala - life, that is, a man so closely and inextricably linked to the life of their own land - as the year of our life is tied to that of its Cinquefrondi - I think it's more than rare case that a single man - in more than 40 years of struggle and strife! - Does not know the shame or the disappointment of a defeat, but always the joy and the pride of victory.
Why Francesco Della Scala, 22 years in elected Councillor of his Cinquefrondi to leave the seat as a public administrator when death strikes him - after he had climbed the ladder of administrative life: Alderman Hall, Provincial Councillor, Deputy Provincial, first Mayor of Cinquefrondi.
And not only covered the stages, but held the positions wins-you to struggle through in our province who were famous.
Municipal Councillor delegate since 1895 - (could not hold the position of mayor for the then existing legal incompatibility between this office and a Deputy Provincial) ceases to hold office with abolition of municipal councils, to rise But the Mayor's seat, Deputy Provincial Director Provincial and afterwards, continue to hold office until the Fascist government does not abolish this administration by creating the Provincial Rector.
But the charges do not count in a man's life when they are just mere shine when they serve only to titillate personal vanity! - If, conversely, you agree to selflessness, not selfishness, if a charge does not constitute an honor - if you use a good bed with not a single good - if you win you over with a high civic ideal not for personal gain - then they count more than in the individual life, are an integral part of life itself - are all life.
How
was just the life of Francesco Della Scala!
In eletoralistico turbulent period that goes from 1891 to 1922 - turbulent period in which the municipalities of our Calabria - willingly or not - they ran the 'randomness' s results of anti-lytic bit - in that turbulent period, many of we remember to have lived more than a spectator of actors - only one man, Francis Della Scala, and with him the party of local government that he was headed
............ ................... did not change her appearance,
nor moved his neck, nor bent his side,
won the victory or political candidate who supported it.
Where to put the secret of that power? The fascination exerted on the man who lived his life and those who approached him for days or even both for a few seconds - in its multifarious activities and tireless public administrator for the benefit of the right-angle and the community.
He had an irresistible charm. Rugged, handsome per-person, the profile of energy, deep searching look, the 'ever-present cigarette between his lips, his hands in his pockets - his posing routine - it was all for friends to help or encourage them - in the various contingency ; needs - sad or happy in their lives - you save labor, knew no obstacles, it is not allowed to rest.
asked, begged, commanded, begged - and never asked for, fine, commanded, pleaded for herself! - And get, and how! -All because they had the intimate, the firm conviction of his unlimited power.
Intima, tenacious belief that became the granite during the election campaign until the day of the vote, and raised cries of enthusiasm when the ballot boxes, invariably, consecrated the resounding victory of his party, which after all was only his personal victory .
to be seen, during the period of major combat, then it must be his opposite: quiet, calm and smiling - the absolute certainty of victory you could see in his eyes and face ...
I remember a terrible, violent struggle administration of the immediate pre-war - which followed an equally huge and violent political struggle in which the candidate supported by the end of the scale had been unsuccessful - the first fight that was faced by universal suffrage. All the conflicting parties and more conflicting factions in the town of Cinquefrondi all of the district and had joined forces against Della Scala. - The meetings followed one another at meetings, demonstrations demonstrations. It seemed huge wave of reaction is raised to flood even more than the party, man 's man who dominated decades unshakable - well tetragon the blows of chance ... -
Almost unanimous was the certainty that our would inevitably be defeated. Even those closest to the side who were more anxiously that they were certain of defeat. Yet they fought, and lions, supported by confidence in the head, encouraged by his example. Because he had the certainty of victory - and the serenity of his face and his mind exercised a fascination that will not allow that to him as they experience the slightest doubt that it could, albeit slightly tarnish that certainty. -
Saturday night - the day before the vote - the one, with a group of his most faithful, I went out of his palace. Cinquefrondi watched: the streets squares and groups of people in the vast majority opponents, much to occur completes the suggestion that the fight was lost for our friend.
Far from his eyes and his words - out of - so full of fight in that environment - the doubt rigermogliò our soul, was almost certain. We looked at silent and dismayed. And one of us - the closest to him and among his most influential - he murmured as if talking to himself: "It's du-ra ... I fear that Don Ciccio is wrong ... It would be the first time ... Ma .. "
shaking his head, shook hands and we parted ....
That night we passed sleepless. -
Sunday a huge battle on the line. At 23.30 the polls had given their verdict: Francesco Della Scala itself, with overwhelming majority, the two seats in the Provincial Council - and the posts of majority and minority on the City Council Cinquefrondi.
No it was a defeat for opponents, but final annihilation. The following Monday
Cinquefrondi resumed its normal rhythm of life, and its streets and the squares Francesco Della Scala inevitable cigarette between his lips, his hands in his pockets - walked serene, smiling as if it 's terrible struggle few hours earlier, he was not the main actor, the leader, but as an indifferent spectator. - And resume normal life public administrator, not a hundredfold more concerned that his fruitful activity for the benefit of his country.
always the case. It seemed to be saying (in the words of Marcus Aure-lio): "I look forward to my duty. The other objects do not distract me "
His task was the love of his hometown ...
Because, as well Bettino Ricasoli wrote: "The devotion to the homeland is not an affect, but it is something higher, more as-solute ... is a must! 'And this duty
Francesco Della Scala felt in the highest degree just as a logical consequence of his boundless affection and psychological-to towards its Cinquefrondi.
Oh, the power of this love! which was not capable of miracles! Forty years of struggle, sacrifice, triumph - granted without rest or respite.
In his life he did not, we can say with consciousness, other mission than that of the recovery, processing, re-generation of his hometown.
was a village and made a charming little town in all-you expect - admired and envied by the whole province. There was no law-making and in favor of our Calabria that he has not exploited, there was no provision to which he has drawn for the benefit of his country. Always first in everything. While
completed a public building another began - and ended to repair a street, he opened another - and a square was transformed into a villa once stood. From city hall to the school building - from housing kindergarten - the offices of the district court to remand prison - from sewage to 'new avenues to the aqueduct-beds, etc. ... It is all down to his fruitful activities Kabyle Instan-Citizen and Public Admin. And you can probably forget the struggles for decades and decades because a railway line would embrace the countries of our flat from Gioia Tauro to Cinquefrondi?
The consolidation, processing, landscaping, regeneration Cinquefrondi is inextricably linked to the life of Francesco Della Scala - and the last days, just the last days of life-the death of this man if they were not the crown, the crown-chin worth a noble existence of all expenditure pro 'of his Madina city. Why undermined, curved from the evil that had cut off the still young life - first to enter a surgical clinic in Rome from which it was not fatally out of body - he became accompany, support for dragging in the classrooms of various ministries to obtain, how it got, the 'last great loan for the new aqueduct that will animate the new fountains of his Cinquefrondi. And from
bed of pain and death he dictated a telegram (1) that Annunziata to his countrymen the new 'victory that crowned his ul-thyme act of faith and love for the land and from there a few days I would get cold corpse ! -
(1) Here's the telegram: Vice Mayor - Cinquefrondi - Delighted joint-care financing today's new waterworks project that I work more than one million-appalterà Ministry immediately. Please accept my country's last free-minds telegraphing thanked Comm Romano - Greetings.
Scale
L 'istessa fertile and tireless work he brought in' Administra-tive of the Province during the many decades in which he filled the position of Director and Deputy Provincial Provincial. And the late presi-dent of the Provincial Deputation, Pasquale Barone Reytan, and had this much confidence in him, kept him in that behalf and so to entrust to the most delicate and difficult tasks. - And in several provincial congresses, in Turin, as in Palermo - Milan as Roma - Francesco Della Scala was the officer responsible for our province.
But who can follow step by step the public life of Francesco Della Scala? - Improbable and difficult undertaking even try.
It is certain that for more than eight decades, this man was an example and a warning not only to administrators of the municipalities of our ex-ing around, but even those of the entire region.
And not just in government and administration of public affairs, but still in relation to events or happy or sad of his nationality or the nation he was always at the forefront - most noble example of al-truism, self-denial and sacrifice.
The earthquake of 1908 finds him in the breach to hearten, to AIU-tion, to save, first among the first, risking their lives, so that a bronze medal honors his noble effort.
Vajol an epidemic breaks out - and he is always in line for solar-the epidemic, to defeat it - and when he fears that his efforts may be in vain healthy, encouraging his help in a section of the praiseworthy Red Cross - and the evil is eradicated immediately. When the English
rampant claiming victims - he is always around, active and restless, to the slums and houses, to help to built - and why the poor can have immediate help and profi-CuO, establishes, among 's more, a chemist at the expense of the municipality.
And when in 1917 - the disaster of Kobarid - refugees are rampant in our districts to escape the cruelty of the invaders, Cinquefrondi - at the behest of Scale - is among the first towns in our province that welcomes with open arms the brothers unfortunate - and rivelantissimo number compared with other common - When you open them, with the houses, hearts of its inhabitants.
Francesco Della Scala! - A name that rings in this powerful ul-thyme half-century history of civil Cinquefrondi - a name that is engraved in letters of 'gold on all public buildings on all streets, all the squares of Cinquefrondi.
was fought Francesco Della Scala - as it is who is human life - all life - is a mission of fighting - but it was never won.
was opposed, was hampered on the road that ran with the gaze fixed-do the one goal: increasing the elevation of his country, but the adversity, the barriers he shattered without deviating, affrontan-doli! - It was envied and was admired - he was hated but he was adored.
and the struggle and triumph - and the envy and admiration, and the hatred and the love he, firmly, a high forehead, clear eyes, his face lit by a smile - always stood firm as a tower
that does not collapse
ever to top the blowing wind.
And so we will see it forever - through the eyes of the soul - the memory that will never velero if it is true - as it is quite true - that the gratitude and love are all 'nothing but empty shams.
So his fellow citizens and their descendants the most distant and Vedran-no in the present and in the 'future - because Cinquefrondi today-so new, so charming, so regenerated - that was not cleared by the force, graced by a smile, shaped by 'love of the unforgettable his son Francesco Della Scala ...
April 1934 - XII.
Arturo Borgese
final prospectus 
