Jos Pancetti (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Giuseppe Giannini Pancetti, better known as Jos Pancetti was a Brazilian modernist painter. Born into a humble family of immigrants from Tuscany, Italy. he lived in Campinas until he was 10 years old, when his father, a master carpenter, moved with his wife and children to the state capital, S o Paulo, where he hoped to find better working conditions. One year later, Jos and one of his sisters moved to Italy, to live under the care of an uncle and grandparents. Arriving at the house of his uncle Casimiro, he started to study at the Salesian College in Massa-Carrara. But shortly thereafter, the country would be involved in World War I and Pancetti had to be moved to the countryside, home of his grandparents in the town of Pietrasanta. There, he learned the craft of a carpenter in a small workshop. But he didn't like the routine of the job and thus went to work, always briefly, in some factories until the conflict ended