The Cat from Kitaly began life in the marble mountains of Carrara some 100 years ago. Renown Sculptor Antinio Bortone, a professor at the Florentine School of Art, bought together a young woman knitting socks for first World War soldiers and this little cat, whose delight was to play with the ball of wool before drifting off to sleep. Knitting for the front as the sculpture is now called, was part of 500 pieces of art bought to New Zealand in 1918 and sold to raise funds for soldiers blinded by mustard gas during the war. Visiting Paris, surviving a storm at sea, making friends with a rat, being shaken by earthquakes, and bought, not once but twice, by the people of Christchurch, New Zealand – these adventures are only part of his story. Little wonder he was offended when he heard himself described as “just a Cat”. It was then he decided he needed to tell his life’s story for he is and always well be THE CAT FROM KITALY.
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