Vittorio "Nuvola Bionda" & Nicola
In the magazine Adam, a man named Vittorio, known as Nuvola Bionda, recounted his deportation to Carbonia. It had been triggered by his relationship with Nicola, the son of a baker from Trastevere. Vittorio described him as a beautiful young man with whom he had fallen in love. Nicola’s stepmother had watched the closeness between them with suspicion. Wanting to get rid of her stepson, she confided her suspicions to a priest, who referred her to a police commissioner.
“They caught us together in bed at dawn on a spring day in 1941. I was put on trial and sent to Carbonia in Sardinia. It was truly terrible there,” he recalled.
He worked in the Serbariu mine alongside other homosexual men and political opponents of the regime. Speaking during work was forbidden, and in the evenings there was only exhaustion. Particularly humiliating for him was a guard who fastened little bells to the men’s wrists and ankles in order to mock them publicly.
“They caught us together in bed at dawn on a spring day in 1941. I was put on trial and sent to Carbonia in Sardinia. It was truly terrible there,” he recalled.
He worked in the Serbariu mine alongside other homosexual men and political opponents of the regime. Speaking during work was forbidden, and in the evenings there was only exhaustion. Particularly humiliating for him was a guard who fastened little bells to the men’s wrists and ankles in order to mock them publicly.