In the countryside of Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region, a colorful mosaic monument pays tribute to the 1867 murder of Ruggero Pascoli, father of the celebrated poet Giovanni Pascoli (1855-1912). Created in 2017 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the assassination, the monument sits at the exact spot where the crime took place. Ruggero’s brutal murder—when Giovanni was just 11 years old—remains unsolved. Various civic and private institutions pooled their resources to make the monument a reality. Giovanni Pascoli’s hometown of San Mauro Pascoli—renamed for him in 1932—teamed up with Accademia Pascoliana,…
