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Tuesday was Tutti i Santi, All Saints\u2019 Day.\u00a0 Schools, shops, and offices close for this annual day of solemn remembrance, and families visit the graves of their forebears to tidy up and leave fresh flowers. Florists do big business in chrysanthemums, the traditional choice, and cyclamen, another cool weather bloom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following a friend’s suggestion we joined the crowds at the cemetery on the outskirts of town to visit the Jewish cemetery, which is inside as the old ghetto was contained inside the city walls.\u00a0 We carried a pot of chrysanthemums to leave at the grave of Marco Levi, the self-proclaimed \u201clast Jew of Mondov\u00ec.\u201d Upon his death in 2001, Levi\u2019s estate created a foundation to establish the Museo della Ceramica, where I am a docent for English-speaking tour groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At the custodian\u2019s office I asked for the Jewish cemetery, received a key and some simple directions: walk along the perimeter wall until you find a gate.\u00a0 We soon found a high iron gate set in the wall; I turned the key in the lock and we stepped inside.\u00a0 Small gravestones in Hebrew lean beside flat tombs and large memorial markers.\u00a0 Clipped hedges, mostly leafless now, divide the cemetery into sections.\u00a0 We moved along the graveled pathways, reading names and family histories, until we came to Marco Levi.\u00a0 Few of the other graves showed signs of recent attention but Levi\u2019s is well cared for; we placed our flowers in front of his stone beside a vase of mums, another of eucalyptus, and a pot of crimson cyclamen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Across the way and behind a thick hedge we saw the tomb of Felice Momigliano, a prominent member of the 19th<\/sup>-century Jewish community whose name we recognized from a plaque at his residence in via Vico, a few doors down from our first home in Mondov\u00ec. Momigliano\u2019s grave was unattended, a few dead leaves scattered across the large stone, lichen darkening the pale surface, the letters fading and eroded by weather.  Among all the other neglected memorials this one seemed sadder to me. That a man once so renowned should be forgotten seemed wrong somehow.  After all, we knew of him, recognized his name and his place in the Jewish history of Mondov\u00ec.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Thursday morning I returned. The key to the gated cemetery was just where I\u2019d left it near the main entrance. I unlocked the iron portal and pushed through the hedge, swept leaves from Momigliano\u2019s tomb and left a pot of cyclamen at the foot of his stone to honor his memory. I felt better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tuesday was Tutti i Santi, All Saints\u2019 Day.\u00a0 Schools, shops, and offices close for this annual day of solemn remembrance, and families visit the graves of their forebears to tidy up and leave fresh flowers. Florists do big business in chrysanthemums, the traditional choice, and cyclamen, another cool weather bloom. Following a friend’s suggestion we
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