Giuseppe Dossetti and Monteveglio

After several researches, he mets Giuseppe Dossetti, who visits “La Valle” and offers him the possibility to move to the “Borgo” of the Monteveglio Abbey, near Bologna.

Several months (almost one year) go by looking for alternative solutions, some suggested by Elémire Zolla, who longs for taking part in the adventure of the group of friends, but does not agree with their decision to include Dossetti as well. Zolla who was supported also by his father, Father Giovanni Vannucci, translator of The Philokalia, a collection of ascetic texts written by monks of the first centuries of Christian age, that Pinto always carries with him. Even if Bruno agrees with his friend, he feels the urgency to understand the real meaning of the “unimaginable complexity and violent conflict of the realities experienced in La Valle”; that’s why in 1964 he moves with the others of the group, except Manfredi, to Monteveglio.

With Dossetti he establishes a frank and intense relationship, even in the remarkable differences of thought; many doubts upset his spirit before deciding to accept his proposal.

He marries Laura Lanza and, in the following seven years they have four children: Gabriele, Giovanni, Raffaele and Bianca Maria.

At that time, during the Second Vatican Council, Monteveglio was a place of meetings among national and international personalities, of different cultural backgrounds, belonging to the political, laic and religious world, who offer to Pinto the opportunity of significant, decisive comparisons and confirmation of the unique and intrinsic creative force of the intuitions grounding his researches (see: Bruno Pinto,“Per uscire dalla valle. Critica di me stesso”, edited by Omar Calabrese, La casa Usher, Florence 1992).