Service and devotion.

The cost of devotion.

In the photo: a detail from an etching by Sergio Vatteroni (Carrara 1890 – 1975), ‘La lizza’ (Handling and transportation of marble blocks), taken from the ‘CARMI Museo Carrara e Michelangelo’, Villa Fabbricotti – Carrara (Italy).

“The Rusanovs loved their people, their great people; they served them and were ready to offer their lives for them. But as the years went by, they could tolerate the population less and less. This recalcitrant population, which was eternally going astray, digging its heels in, and demanding something.”[1]

The conscience is asked to notarize an act that may become public, or to authenticate it if it was not intended to be made public: it pays the price, feeling relieved by it.

Marina Bilotta Membretti/ Cernusco sul Naviglio – October 23, 2026

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[1] Taken from ‘Reparto C’, by A. Solzenitsin, 1970 prize Nobel winner for Literature/ Giulio Einaudi editore SpA (1974) Collana ‘Gli struzzi’/52, p. 217. Translat. Giulio Dacosta (Titolo origin. Rakovyi Korpus’). Introduction by Vittorio Strada.