Father Frumenzio Ghetta Demartin

Father Frumenzio Ghetta is surely the most popular still living historiographer of the ladin community of Fassa Valley. Alberto Antonio Ghetta was born in Vigo di Fassa February the 11th 1920. After a relugious training in various cities of Trentino, for example Rovereto, he attended the seminary in Trento. On the occasion of his clothing in 1938 he changed his name in Frumenzio and around the half of the 40es he began to be charged with important tasks in the most important monastries of Trentino. During the forst years after the II World War, in the period of the so called "Aisciuda Ladina" (Ladin Spring), the historical and cultural facts of Fassa Valley are precisely collected in the chronicles of this monk. All his works, however, were not adressed to the academical world, that was often in contrast with his way of thinking, but they were written for his people, the inhabitants of his Valley, that he always keeps in his heart. Among his most popular works is the "Collection of historical memories of Fassa Valley's Community" of Father Luigi Barolde, and serie of lyrics and poems, for example the one that  consider as the best and most emotionging composition of the whole ladin literature: "Colores de mia tera" (Colors of my land). Others texts and collections of documents of the history of Fassa Valley since 1500 were published during the career of Father Frumenzio. Always engaged also in politics, defending the desires of ladin people, he often took part to broadcastings of the ladin RAI in Bolzano, and nowadays he's also a member of the editorial staff of the magazin "Mondo Ladino" (Ladin World), the official magazine of the Istitut Cultural Ladin "Majon di Fascegn".

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