In addition to the research carried out in regional, provincial and municipal archives, to complete the documentation on the bibliography about the earthquake interwiews were conducted some of the protagonists of the emergency. The collected testimonies can be heard in the online version available at www.tommasomazzoli.it/terremoto.

Besides his oral commentary, urban planner, Luciano Di Sopra helped by writing a text stressing how the estimate of the damage has been considered - among the instruments of reconstruction – an innovation of the highest importance. In the space of a few months after the earthquake there was made and summed up in a volume from this point of wiew the fundamental An estimate of the damage caused by seismic activity at the Friuli 1976, Monographs "Rebuild", # 1, Udine, 1977.

Ivano Benvenuti, at the time mayor of Gemona, on the conversation that followed the recording told how on 8 May 1976 in "Goi" barracks Aldo Moro applied to Antonio Comelli, asking him if the region would be able to handle the reconstruction. Comelli looked questioningly at Salvatore Varisco and at the same Benvenuti. As they shyly nodded, he accepted the huge responsibility. The mayor wants to recognize the strategic value of the Moro's choice and the courage of local administrators.

Lorenzo Cozianin, former mayor of Ragogna, while recalling the dramatic moments of the post-earthquake, remembered the hard conditions of the traditional Friuli, the slow ascent that industrialization was enhancing, the commitment of the Fantoni business to continue still in the territory and the collective will to begin again. His interpretation scheme can be found, partly, in the innovative text by Pierluigi and Roberto Grandinetti, The Friuli case. Backwardness or development?, Cooperative "Il Campo", Udine, 1979.

Luciana Marioni Bros, former coordinator of the Villa Manin Center for Restoration, carried out an extraordinary work. To realize the scale and quality of the commitment it can only refer to the 3847 cards prepared and collected by her in the volume edited by Gian Carlo Menis, A museum in the earthquake, GEAP, Pordenone, 1988.

Carlo Comin, expert on roads and railway, reiterated that the value of the infrastructure created thanks to the post-earthquake reconstruction, have maintained and maintain their effectiveness over time. It would therefore be possible to integrate them with the development of the Adriatic ports, especially of Trieste. This point of view, already present in the regional urban plan before the earthquake, deserves more study, because it could allow to the Friuli an active role in the new era of globalization.

A bibliography which further explores these problems can be fand in the two texts published on the occasion of the tenth and the twentieth anniversary of the earthquake: S. Smith (eds), 1976-1986. The reconstruction of Friuli, IRES, Udine, 1986; Bonfanti P. (eds), Friuli 1976-1996. Contributions to the reconstruction model, FORUM, Udine, 1996.

The wealth of information that can be gleaned from them cannot be reported here for reasons of space.

Trad. Maria Cristina Davanzo.

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