
La Marmota (trad. – Angelo Brofferio, Piedmont)
Traditional savoyard melody, used even by Ludwig Van Beethoven for his Lieder.
The piedmont poet Angelo Brofferio, obstinate anticlerical republican adverse to the conservatory power and ferocious adversary of Count Cavour, wrote a text listing the abuses that Carlota, a poor mountain girl from Val Susa (western Alps) is forced to suffer to gain a living in the city of Turin. Disgusted, she will escape and return fiercer than ever.