An exhibition on the Great War through the photographs of a doctor from Sorso at the front , Professor Lodovico Pietro Marogna . The Municipality wanted to honor him with an extraordinary exhibition through unpublished images consigned to memory by Marogna himself who participated in the First World War as a major Red Cross doctor. The inauguration at the Baronial Palace last Friday, on the occasion of the event organized by the "20 thousand steps in the wind" association, in the presence of the mayor of Sorso, Fabrizio Demelas.
Pietro Marogna, surgeon and nephew of the author of the photographs, and Lieutenant Colonel Pasquale Orecchioni, director of the Sassari Brigade Museum, spoke. Images that retrace the history of Italy and the life of Pietro Marogna (1875-1950), who while still a child was sent to Bologna for secondary school studies and later enrolled in the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Florence, then the of excellence in the university landscape.
In 1900 he graduated and began practicing medicine in San Costanzo in the Marche and then, for nine years, in Gergei, a very poor town in southern Sardinia. In 1924 he was appointed extraordinary professor of surgical pathology at the University of Sassari, where he also directed the surgical clinic, and then moved to the University of Modena where he obtained the ordinariate. Returning to Sardinia, he held important professorships in the Turritano University and from 1932 to 1935 he was rector of the University of Sassari. Once his mandate expired, in 1936 Marogna moved again to Modena, returning to Sassari in November 1947 as a non-tenured professor.