European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

Shall I recite it for you?

It's called "Garibaldina".

O hero walking with courage,

along the steep roads and horrible paths

you have something in your proud looks,

that recalls the mother, the bride, the sister.

Simple are your hair and your skirt,

your thoughts are on struggle and uneasiness

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 ..."