Lampo (dog)

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Lampo
Lampo, the traveling dog (1).jpg
Dog Lampo.
Speciesdomestic dog
Breedmongrel
SexMale
Borncirca 1950
DiedJuly 22, 1961
Campiglia Marittima, Italy
Resting placeCampiglia Marittima, Italy
OwnerElvio Barlettani

Lampo (c. 1950 – July 22, 1961) was a mixed-breed dog that became famous for his rail journeys across Italy.[1]

History[]

Lampo on the locomotive.

In August 1953, Lampo, then a stray dog, got off a cargo train at the in Italy and was adopted by the stationmaster Elvio Barlettani, despite the strict rail regulations.[2] Soon the dog had learned the train schedules, distinguishing the slow trains from the fast ones and how to get somewhere every day and return at sunset.[3] Almost every morning he was traveling by train from Campiglia Marittima to Piombino to accompany Mirna, the stationmaster's daughter in her way to school and then was returning to the Campiglia.

After a few years, the management of the Florence railway forced Barlettani to remove the dog. Lampo was put on a cargo train to Naples, but he managed to return after a few days. Later Lampo was given to a friend of the stationmaster in Barletta, however after about five months, the dog managed to return to Campiglia Marittima, where he officially had become the mascot of the railway station. His story intrigued journalists around the world, who dedicated television services, articles and covers to his story.[4]

On the evening of July 22, 1961 in Campiglia Marittima, a maneuvering cargo train hit the dog, who was then buried in the flowerbed at the foot of an acacia tree at the railway station.

Commemoration[]

Monument of Lampo at the .

Shortly after his death, thanks to railway workers and the American magazine This Week, a monument was inaugurated at the Campiglia Marittima railway station in memory of Lampo.

In 1962 the book Lampo, the Traveling Dog (Italian: Lampo, il cane viaggiatore) was written by the stationmaster, Elvio Barlettani (died July 2006). The publishing house published the book. It became successful with about fifteen editions until 2009 and has been translated into English, French,[5] German[6] and Japanese.[7]

In 1967 story of Lampo was fictionalized by the Polish writer Roman Pisarski in the short story that has become school reading in the third grade classes of primary schools in Poland.[8]

References[]

  1. ^ Prieur, Jean (1990). Gli animali hanno un'anima (in Italian). Edizioni Mediterranee. ISBN 9788827208281.
  2. ^ "Lampo cane viaggiatore". www.clamfer.it. Retrieved 2019-08-28.
  3. ^ "Lampo the Traveling Dog Rode the Rail to Fame". The Milwaukee Journal. 1968-10-16.
  4. ^ "Famous Dogs: Lampo, the travelling dog". Look and learn. 1967-04-22.
  5. ^ "Lampo, chien voyageur".
  6. ^ Daniel Hörnemann (2015). "Lampo – der Eisenbahn(er)hund" (PDF). Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. ^ "Morto Elvio Barlettani, padre di Lampo - Il Tirreno". Archivio - Il Tirreno (in Italian). Retrieved 2019-08-28.
  8. ^ Vp (2014-04-20). "Livorno Daily Photo: Lampo, the traveling dog". Livorno Daily Photo. Retrieved 2019-08-28.

Bibliography[]

  • Lampo, the Traveling Dog by Elvio Barlettani, Garzanti, 1962.
  • by Roman Pisarski, Biuro Wydawnicze "Ruch", 1967.

Filmography[]

  • Lampo, cane viaggiatore, 1962.
  • Il cane viaggiatore by Simone Paradisi, 2011
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