European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

you don't rest on candid pillows,

your pain is eased by laying on hay.

Don't ever get tired, Anita,

if you live this exasperating life,

for the triumph of the ideal of freedom

that indicates the sacred battle to everyone

the way to a just and shiny future

the way to universal peace.

I brought it to the journal some time before Christmas

and there I met the solicitor Lando Landini

who was studying medicine

and he told me: "Look, this verse here has no flow ..."

and I replied: "No, either you publish it like this of not at all."

"Go away, I'll take care of it, we'll publish it.

Now, could you come over here to work for the journal?"

the former for the Garibaldi-brigades, the latter for the Green Flames.

I accepted, they called me then special reporter

and was sent to the units to describe the partisan life.