VALENTI OSVALDO: (1906-1945) Italian film Actor. Valenti and his lover Luisa Ferida (1914-1945) were executed by ...

VALENTI OSVALDO: (1906-1945) Italian film Actor. Valenti and his lover Luisa Ferida (1914-1945) were executed by partisans in Milan, because of their links with fascism, five days before the end of WWII. Their story was portrayed in the film Wild Blood (2008). A good and large bold black fountain pen ink `Osvaldo Valenti´, to an 8.5 x 10.5 (21,5 x 27 cm) page removed from an autograph album. Valenti adds beneath `Anno di Cafard 1944 - Venezia´. Valenti feels glum referring to the year 1944, with the war situation, the annulation of the cinema Mostra of Venise, the fall of Mussolini, and the anti-fascists partisans threats which will shortly after be accomplished and Valenti executed. Small overall minor age toning to edges, otherwise VG Provenance: The present page originates from the personal autograph album of Marina Chaliapin (1912-2009), the daughter of Russian opera singer Feodor Chaliapin (1873-1938), widely regarded as one of the finest bass singers of the 20th century, and his mistress Marina Petsold (1882-1964) who became the singer's second wife in 1927. Chaliapin's daughter was married to Luigi Freddi (1895-1977) the Italian journalist and politician who edited the journal Il Popolo d'Italia and who was also hugely influential in Italian political cinema in the second half of the 1930s and beginning of the 1940s