The "Nonnino ' column CLA
" Without my dad we could not do for boys what we did. " There is a lot, a lot of Emilio (pictured in the midst of the children) in the great work of the Committee Livornese welfare assistance. The heroic "grandfather" of the Resistance, humble worker in the antifascist first now, as brave as can be only "a genuine militant Christian."
Emilio had played a key role (overstated) Resistance in Tuscany, and beyond. was the link between it and those who were directing the movement of military resistance to Rome. He also entratura in relations with the Vatican by the famous Monsignor Flaerty, who attended the former Allied prisoners of war. He also spoke of Radio Londra.Catturato (and miraculously escaped), was interrogated by the notorious Colonel Kappler, who considered a general. "One of those generals that torture could not extract even a word."
"The mangled the soles of the feet with a whip, the swollen face punched, kicked and broke his teeth and lips : the 'General' was silent, and sometimes with a wry smile of his face swollen and bloody." Then after the war, "the source Emilio" was one of the souls of CLA to the death (1954). Indefatigable, he gave all children with "a contagious joy in the difficulties that seemed to expand."
