Uberto Revelli (Rocca Cigliè, 16 May 1922 - Turin, November 17, 2006) was an Italian partisan, one of the founders of the Franks and active in the war of liberation from the Nazi occupation in Italy in 1943-1945. Biography modifies wikitesto
Born in Rocca Cigliè, in the province of Cuneo, on 16 May 1922 by Rosa Gallo and Giuseppe Revelli, he lived in Carrù. He was a student of philosopher Luigi Pareyson at the high school of Cuneo in 1940/41; from the same year he was a pupil of the Artillery and Genius Academy in Turin. He moved to Lucca, where he succeeded in appointing a subordinate. Following the armistice of September 8, 1943, he joined General Giuseppe Perotti, initially forming a partisan gang in Val Casotto, and then moved back to Turin in February 1944 in secret. Following the shooting of General Giuseppe Perotti, he founded with Edgardo Sogno, Riccardo Banderali and others the Franks Organization, carrying out non-violent resistance activities since April 1944. He was arrested in Turin on December 22, 1944 and finally transferred to the extermination camp in Dachau, Germany, where he arrived on March 24, 1945, surviving until his American liberation on April 29, 1945. After the Second World War he married his military career, gaining a degree in engineering, working in Pavia and Turin until the General grade. After his retirement, he was elected to the town council of Carrù for two terms, from 1985 to 1995, also covering the role of councilor. He worked assiduously in the A.N.P.I .. It was extinguished on November 17, 2006 in Turin, and then buried in the family tomb of Carrù's cemetery. Bibliografiamodifica wikitesto
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