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A life of exploration, a life to explore
On the occasion of the 90th birthday of CAI academic Cino Boccazzi, the Treviso section of the Club Alpino Italiano celebrates the great mountaineer in an evening in which the fundamental stages of the eclectic and active life of the Treviso doctor, mountaineer, explorer, anthropologist and archaeologist will be retraced. "Cino Boccazzi: montagne di una vita - vette, esplorazioni, incontri attraverso il Novecento" (Cino Boccazzi: mountains of a life - summits, explorations, encounters across the 20th century) is the title of the meeting organised by the Treviso CAI in collaboration with the mountaineering publication 46° Parallelo, scheduled for 10 March 2006 at 8.45 p.m. at the Eden Theatre in Treviso. The event will mark four fundamental periods of a life spent in research, study, discovery and the recounting of adventures undertaken at the most diverse latitudes of the world and in the company of some of the most important mountaineers, travellers and men of culture of the short century. Active as a first-class sportsman, the young Boccazzi fully joined the company of Dolomite mountaineers that would later go down in history as the 'Mazzotti Band' . And it will be precisely the atmospheres evoked in 'Il nomade delle rocce' (The Rock Nomad), one of his most recent books, that will mark the narrative of the mountaineering historian - and director of the Le Alpi Venete exhibition - Armando Scandellari. Some unpublished images from a 1940 film dedicated to the 'Emilio Comici' winter mountaineering school will be shown. Historian Ernesto Brunetta will introduce the talk on one of the most difficult and stormy periods in Italian history. Through the viewing of some rare and unpublished images from the Second World War, from the personal archive of 'Lieutenant Piave'. Boccazzi's pseudonym, will recall the difficult combination of mountaineering passion and a life divided between military commitment and resistance struggle. The writer Alessandro Meccoli will recall the end of the period of infighting that allowed the writer to return to his home town, Treviso, and practice as a doctor. It was a time in which Boccazzi made new friends and strengthened old ties, participating in a true cultural circle that was instrumental in earning the city the nickname 'Little Athens' . Boccazzi maintained assiduous relations with great men of culture such as Buzzati, Comisso, Parise and De Pisis, without neglecting his friendship with the English explorer, Asolan by adoption, Freya Stark. Boccazzi's 'Explorations' are developed further: in the fourth and final part of the evening, thanks to the contribution of the mountaineer, explorer, and in turn CAI academic, Giuliano De Marchi, Cino's adventures in the African continent will be retraced, with particular reference to his long stay in Chad and the study of the Tibesti territory. Four threads of a life dedicated to discovery, which will be moderated for the occasion by the director of the daily newspaper La Tribuna di Treviso, Alessandro Moser. At the end of the evening, Cino Boccazzi will be presented with the honorary membership card of the Treviso section of the CAI.
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