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Rare wartime photographs go on display in Edinburgh
Hundreds of long-hidden photographs have gone on display in Edinburgh, revealing life in rural Italy during the Second World War. FERNANDA: LE FOTO RITROVATE - Undiscovered Photos of Italian Rural Life 1930-1950 has just opened at the Italian Institute of Culture on runs until 1 October. Dating from the 1930s to the 1950s, the photographs were discovered by filmmaker Giordano Viozzi after the death of his aunt, Fernanda Millevolte, with the original negatives having spent years in a drawer. The photographer and many of those pictured remain unknown, but the collection offers a rare glimpse into life among contadini - impoverished sharecroppers from southern Le Marche.