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Alberto Quadri was born in Marzabotto, near Bologna, in the 1880s. In the late 1890s his family emigrated to Brazil. They worked in the fields and could save some money. After the First World War they went back to Italy and bought a little farm in the municipality of Vergato, also near Bologna. However Alberto, already married, remained in Brazil. He had the concession of the land for a farm in the State of Minas Gerais. We can assume that his business was good, because in 1927 the whole family took a vacation to Italy to visit the relatives in Vergato and in Sasso, another village near Bologna, the birth place of Cleonice Sandri, Alberto's wife. The photo was taken in Vergato during this vacation. We can see Alberto Quadri and Clenice Sandri, their twelve children and two Alberto's sisters. Cleonice was pregnant and gave birth during the vacation time. She died a few days later. Alberto took the famoly back to Brazil. We know that Alberto remarried and had three children by the second wife. The photo is a liitle unusual for Brazilian immigrants. There were families that emigrated for a time and then went back to Italy, as the Alberto parents, but it was not common in those time that an emigrated family had a vacation, such travel was beyond the means of most immigrant families. That became more usual only after the Second World War. Looking at the photo we can note also some details. The kids in the back row are drinking wine. At the time that was not seen as inappropriate. The people are relatively well clothed. Probably a ell-to-do Italian family would have bought shoes for the children to show the higher condition achieved. However the Quadri family lived in Brazil where footwear was not seen as a status symbol.
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