Valentina Giordano Franco Lubatti
Novara rediscovered after 30 years of work abroad
Interviewed in 2011, Franco Lubatti was born in 1937 in Novara, he worked in Brazil for over thirty year, working in the farma industry. He merried a Brazilian woman. He have returned to Novara with his family and, he says, his children feel themselves to be really part of Novara.
He describes Novara as it was when he had left it in the early years after WWII. When he returned into the city, he joined his mother's farmacy and innovated the business.
He descirbes the character of Novara people, their being suspicious and somehow a mix of Lombardy a Piedmontese culture.
Video table of contents
- Family and work in Brazil
- Novara changes: Sant'Agabio neighbourhood
- Entertainment after WWII, meeting places, and sports
- Via Piave band
- Gnemmi Bar, Bar Menabrea and Bar Bertani
- Dialect poetry in Novarese dialect
- Novarese characters: suspicious but open
- Novara is Lombardy, the border is the Sesia river
- Banca Popolare of Novara
- Places in Novara
- The pharmacy and the pharmacist's work
- Brazilian wife but the children feel Novarese
- RAI announcers
- The dances in farmyard and adventures with rice weeders
- The sghiarola, skating on the sidewalks
- Moving bricks and removals
- Road games
- Workers' clubs and fishing in Agogna river
- Brothels
- Sacred Heart school
Interview information
Country: IT
Region: Piemonte
City: Novara
District: NO
Altitude: 162m s.l.m.
Franco Lubatti
Date of birth: 02-20-1937
City: Invorio (NO)
School: University
Profession: Entrepreneur
Languages: Italiano
Document by: Luca Percivalle
Video by: Luca Percivalle
Created: 09-02-2011
