section 11 The child's life

I went up to putèin 5 years, gives 6 years a child could already be put to do something: “l'Bele was one Ragasol”, a 11 years had grown up now, “l'was Ragàs”. My father, when he went to make the contract from the farmer said: “here, “What's it cost to mè Ragas”, I give you for a year, give me a quarter of wheat, a wagon of wood and a carboy of wine”. I had 11 years.

Ivo Iori, 1998

I went to school and I lost a year to go to work and earn money to eat. Blacks were blacks, then the mother of misery, who was widowed, he told me: “I felt, if you go to school here do not eat”, Allore I lost the third class, and I was at home. I was going to make the braid from procide, He worked until midnight. In the morning we also got up at four or five o'clock, we went to the bakery to get a half sandwich oil, that guy was our breakfast and we seemed to eat who knows what and then off to work after.

Danira Corradini, 2000

This space is dedicated to laboratory activities with schools. Equipped with toys, infant clothing, dictionaries of artists, desks and school supplies, It presents some aspects of children's lives in the nineteenth and early twentieth century.

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