browsing the historical documents of the Cellar I found one very interesting: it is the history told by Endrici Franco, father of the owner. The carry-over as it is written in the original:
"The history is the history of my family. The 100 years since 1885, the foundation company, will be the date of birth of my father, in December 1884. He was the eldest of a family of four children, two of whom died very young. At that time infant mortality was high in our countries. The family of my grandmother, the Pilgrims, from the Maso Ginever Cembra Valley, just downstream of Ceola, he had six dead children under twelve years, as you can still see a plaque in the cemetery of S. Michele. Of the three surviving children only one daughter, Aunt Mary, who I have known, survived to old age, while my grandmother Jane died very young in less than thirty years for pneumonia (a disease almost always fatal in those days). The brother Romano Pellegrini, who was one of the founders of the company, died too young, he had less than forty years. In the village was known as a very intelligent and active man, also has a taste for art and music. He even composed sacred music, which sometimes, I remember, was played on the organ of our church. Probably my father was called with the same name of his uncle, because he enjoyed the esteem of his brother-that is my grandfather. With the untimely death of his mother Joan, father and sister Jenny, orphaned, were under the care of his grandmother, an important figure in the family, an energetic woman and active in the country known as the "Nanda", named after the husband Ferdinand. He was survived by eight of his nine children and lived a long time, until 1913, eighty-six years of age.
My grandfather Francis was born in 1854 in Don , Anaunia into that, that they call the Nones "Sora Tof". He came from a family as large as that of my grandmother and nine children. But it was a more robust strain. Almost all came late in life and I have known at least five. Perhaps the climate of the Valley was not healthier than that of the Adige Valley, where in 1800, in the swampy valley of the malaria still reigned. I remember very well his brother Angelo, who along with Francis founded the company in 1885 . I remember Uncle Mani (Emanuele) fell he, too, in the Val d'Adige, Laives, where he bought a farm. He had the misfortune to marry a woman of tuberculous Termeno family, so all his children died young of this terrible disease. There is only one heir who manages to Laives company. At the time of the options in 1939, the family, despite being dissuaded by my father, opted for Germany. Other relatives of my grandfather I remember Uncle John, the only one of the brothers remained in the old family home in Don, and sisters remember Aunt Emma, \u200b\u200bwho married, I think a Straudi, Dove and her aunt, who I believe was the oldest of this large family. The descendants of Straudi, as often happens in Val di Non, studied at the seminary, two became priests, but both, not having a profound vocation, cast, as they say, his cassock to the nettles and one has since married. "[...]
Endrici Romano (grandfather of the owner) with two other comrades in the uniform of the Austrian officer.
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