The statue, conceived as a female allegory, symbolizes the Civiltà Italica. It was commissioned to remember the victims of the Austrian bombardments on 14th November 1915, during the First World War.
The monument was inaugurated on 14th November 1920, for the 5th anniversary of this tragic event.
It is by Egidio Girelli (1878-1972), a sculptor from Verona and it is his first statue made of bronze. The female figure, attired in an ancient dress and with a sword in her hand, is seen as the perfect exponent of pain and suffering, also thanks to the loose movement of the statue, which reminds of the Modern Style. The work is in good enough state of preservation and finlyvalued.
Source: guidebook "Le statue di Verona", project supervised by Luca Leone, published in August 2015 with the support of the town council of Verona.
