(Parma, Cimitero della Villetta. Tomba del dottor Angelo Balestra. Foto dell’autore)

Di Paola Redemagni

Il dottor Angelo Balestra in vita forse era di poche parole: sulla sua lapide, oltre al nome, solo le date di nascita e di morte.

A parlare per lui sono gli altri: la sua lapide è completamente ricoperta di firme e di scritte. Non un esempio precoce di vandalismo graffittaro ma la testimonianza del proprio passaggio lasciata da parenti, amici, pazienti, desiderosi di tramandare affetto e riconoscenza. Evidentemente un uomo molto amato e un ottimo medico.

(Dear friends speaking english, this is an home-made blog. I have no money to pay a professional translator, so I write english post by myself and – as you can see – I can’t write English language very well. So you can find a lot of mistake in the articoles: I beg your pardon. My English language level is: F(unny)! Will you pardon me?)

Angelo Balestra was a doctor. Perhaps he spoke rarely during his life. On his tombstone you can read only his name and the dates of his birth and his death. But a lot of people wrote about him: his tombstone is covered by inscriptions and signs wrote by his friends, relatives and patients. So we can know that he was a man beloved and an excellent doctor.