Bonaria Manca

Bonaria Carmela Manca was born in Orune (province of Nuoro) in Sardinia, on 10 July 1925, of Paolo Manca and Speranza Cossu, the twelfth of thirteen children, of whom only nine, six boys and three girls, would reach adulthood. Hers had been a family of shepherds for generations, and ever since she was a five year-old child she used to follow her mother and father in their activities, both at home and in the fields around Orune, washing wool and laundry at the river, making bread, planting potatoes in the vegetable garden, even driving the oxen if it was necessary: all of this is what characterised her childhood! ...
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