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Nickname (battle name)

We chose nicknames in the Anti-Fascist detachment.

In the Cervi detachment, noone ever took our data, they didn't ask us anything,

whereas here they wanted to know name and nickname.

There were three of us, we took also one from Puianello,

he was working in the pastafactory Cuccolini.

They told us to find a nickname and Pancio said:

"I want to have the name of a fighter: Pancio!"

I told him: "Pancio was a fighter, from South America, what's his name ..."

I wanted to have a more subtle name.

So the other one said: "I want to be called Viper".

"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.