There was no photograph to inspire to faithfully re-trace those lines that had already plowed the forearm of the father, Ferdinando Pierotti, eugubino of the early twentieth century, one of 12 children, (4 females and 8 males including 7 at front during the war of 15-18) emigrated to the United States, to New York, to be a miner. In the photos kept by his son Bruno (born in 1931), he always wore long-sleeved clothes and visual memory remains the last hope to appeal to. "But we should have such a lamp in the attic."

Buricchio and the tattoo Bruno Pierotti, better known in Gubbio as 'Buricchio', a long-time carpenter, lives his 89th birthday. He is still the one who splits the wood of the house by the fireplace, has been working for his newspaper autonomously for several years now, having been widowed in 2000. And, why not, also enjoy a dance on the weekends with friends. Man with a smile printed on his face whose age seems not to belong only to a registry address.

The meeting with Francesco Barbini A few years ago Francesco Barbini, a well-known Perugian tatuatole owner of the Bonnie Tattoo studio, meets Annalisa, and it is in recent years that Bruno meets Francesco Barbini, a well-known Perugian tatuatole owner of the Bonnie Tattoo studio, with whom they become friends. Bruno's nephew who will become his bride and between Francesco and Bruno is soon understood. All those designs that Francesco wears on him intrigue and fascinate Bruno a lot and remind him of what his beloved 'father' had, the oil lamp. It is not clear why his father Ferdinando carried that lamp on his forearm and probably not even that important, what matters to Bruno is having the tattoo as his father, so Francesco comes forward to satisfy him.

The oil lamp With certainty Bruno knows that his father had the lamp tattooed at the port of New York and in those years he was a miner. It is not difficult to trace a series of symbolic possibilities related to this tool, which is vital for those who work in the darkness of a mine, but it was necessary to redesign that tattoo in the most faithful way possible to its memory. And that's how during one of the chats between Francesco and 'Buricchio', as often happens when looking for something, it is the attic to solve everything, an oil lamp just like the one they were looking for was kept there, Francesco will then translate it into a drawing and finally in tattoo.

A step back For Bruno - a man who carries the concept of resistance firmly inside - in his stories the memory of the abuses of the fascist period is very clear, something he suffered too, in addition to having lost his relative shot in the 1940s Martyrs' of Gubbio suffered quarantines and overbearing attitudes only because Italian who wanted to try to work in Germany. Historian ceraiolo, Santubaldaro by birth, who likes to tell, for example, when before entering the house of what would later become his in-laws, at the door of the stairs he heard himself asked aloud, "what candle" was ... and the question it precluded a single possibility of response, which fortunately turned out to be right. Getting tattooed was child's play for him: "The pains of life have been quite different," he says. Now that lamp is there, on his arm to weld even more a bond with his beloved father and his origins but also with Francesco who says he is honored to have left an indelible mark in Bruno's life.