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"Why viper?" "Because it's scary".

So I chose Volpe (fox). A fox runs fast and if there's danger it runs and saves itself.

That's the story of the nickname Volpe.

Another reason was that I thought that there must have been only few people called Volpe.

In fact there was a Volpa in the Rosselli detachment

but my name was Volpe, and that it stayed.

Some changed their nickname from one place to another,

not so in my case, I was fine with it and always kept this name.

I'd chosen it because of the speed of the fox, an animal that runs fast.

That was the reason for the name Volpe, my one and only name.

Bruna and the fleet

Bruna is one of the "staffette" (partisan couriers) who helped to save me.

We were to meet between Barco, Bibbiano, Montecchio and Cavriago,

where the railroad was, around midnight.

We arrived at eleven o'clock,

so we told the "staffetta" that we would go to a peasant's house nearby,

and asked her to watch out and to call us when they'd arrived but to be careful.

Around midnight she came to us

and told us the other partisans had arrived but they were dressed in white.

They didn't know the password.