My name is Ascanio Celestini, son of Gaetano Celestini and Comin Piera. My father puts the furniture back, old or antique furniture, he was born in Quadraro and as a boy he was taken to work under a master in the shop in San Lorenzo. My mother is from Tor Pignattara, when she was young she was a hairdresser for someone who had cut the hair of the King of Italy and at that time she danced ballroom dancing.
When she got married to my father she stopped dancing. When I was born she stopped being a hairdresser. My paternal grandfather was a carter in Trastevere. The accident left him severely disabled and he went to work at the Iris cinema in Porta Pia. In the morning he did the cleaning, in the afternoon and evening he was the mask, at night he was the guardian. His wife was called Agnese, she was born in Bedero. I remember that he made his shoes with old gloves. My maternal grandfather was called Giovanni and was a woodcutter with Primo Carnera. My maternal grandmother was born in Anguillara Sabazia and her name was Marianna. Her sister, Fenisia, removed the evil eye and she told stories of witches.
