The military leader

Once upon a time there was a soldier called Domenico Bernardi; he was married with a woman named Marianna Marzocchi. Domenico and Marianna had been married for few years and they did not know they would soon have a son.

One day Domenico decided he would go to visit his parents and he started walking through the countryside. You should know that Domenico’s parents were farmers and he was a farmer too before becoming a soldier.

He didn’t know exactly why he had become a soldier, maybe because his parents were poor, but he understood that someone had payed his inscription fee to the military academy. He wanted to go visit his parents also because he wanted to know more about this story...

When he got to the small house made of stones, many childhood memories came to his mind and a small teardrop went by his face… But since he was a military leader he was supposed to be tough and he could not cry for any reason.He knocked the door and a short lady, thin and white-haired with a light complexion, full of wrinkles, opened him.