Description

Enrico Toti's scream: "NUN MORO IO!"

Painted by the pointillist painter Giovanni Segantini.

Enrico Toti (Rome, 20 August 1882 - Monfalcone, 6 August 1916), before being a popular hero, was a popular character who stood out for the great vitality and enthusiasm with which he faced the challenges that gradually presented themselves. In fact, despite the amputation of his left leg (lost at the age of 26 due to an accident at work on the railway), he traveled the world on a bicycle which he suitably modified to be used only with his right leg. During the First World War he did everything to enlist among the Bersaglieri cyclists and in the end he succeeded; he was then assigned to the 3rd Battalion and taken to the front lines to fight. On 6 August 1916, during a joint infantry-Bersaglieri action for the conquest of 85 m. altitude east of Monfalcone, Toti incites his companions to attack and tries to reach an enemy trench by throwing bombs, but is hit by several bullets, at which point he finds the strength to throw his crutch in the direction of the Austro-Hungarian position and shout in Roman dialect: "Nun moro io". He was decorated post mortem with the Gold Medal for Military Valor with "motu proprio" by King Vittorio Emanuele III. Domenica del Corriere dedicated a cover illustration to him which consecrated him as a popular hero and glorious symbol of the Great War.

Although he has repeatedly detailed the bersagliere hat / helmet with feathers, the AI has never been able to reproduce it, not even minimally, definitely a lack of the algorithm.