“In the Mid-70ties we went to Venice and my mother took the chance of finding out where her uncle Savino Baret (not Sovino) lived. His flat was in a road called Canarrigio. So I got the chance to get to know him. I never got the chance to get to know his son Fabio who was studying at that time and became a lawyer.
When my mother visited aunt Norma some years ago she was told that both Savino and Fabio are dead. “
Laura Niephaus
April 2010

“Uncle Vino was an upholsterer but actually did everything very well and always knew about anything. He even repaired watches and clocks. He repaired my broken wooden horse, built me a simple guitar and showed us how to make ice-cream. We always enjoyed his visits when he came to Germany.” Laura, December 2010

February 2016 “In the late 1980s I was in my teens and very interested in Mineralogy and mineral collecting. That's how I met Savino, who was curator at the museum of Natural History in Venice, a position which he covered for several years. He had formed a small group of people interested in mineralogy and for several years we met in the lab he had setup at the Museum (every Thursday afternoon!).”
Marco Petrovich - mnp@orc.soton.ac.uk