Cippus of the major Giovanni Randaccio, 1917, 20th Century

Giovanni Randaccio, major of the 2nd Battalion of the 77th Infantry Regiment, died during the Tenth Battle of the Isonzo at the sources of Timavo in a battle led by Gabriele D'Annunzio. There is a memorial stone in the place of the death scene. Behind the 'Stele Virgiliana' monument wanted in 1938 by the survivors of the war, with following Aeneid verses: waves with large bream of the mountain which is heavily seas to nine mouths and resonant floods campaigns (Fontem exceed timavi / unde for November hours cum murmur montis et sea proruptum et pelago premit arva sonant). In the background the 'Lupi di Toscana'. CREATOR: LOCATION: Duino-Aurisina, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy