Today we had the great honour of a visit from GARIBALDO BENIFEI, an Italian anti-Fascist fighter and partisan, who is now ninety-seven years old.<GBenifei1GBenifei2 here is a YouTube clip of him talking about some of his memories. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYvzawsyxJw He came (with a younger comrade ) to visit us at our house in Nugola, to sign a copy of his autobiography and to tell us about his experiences as a political prisoner during the Fascist era and as an anti-Fascist campaigner after 1943. We owe this signal honour to the fact that he tracked down my partner, TOBIAS ABSE, in the Livorno phone-book! Toby is the author of a book about anti-Fascism in Livorno between 1918 and 1922. sovversivifascisti (It was originally his PhD thesis, and was expanded for publication). On Sunday we were at a dinner to commemorate the laying of a stone in memory of a young anti-Fascist who was killed in Livorno in 1922, and somebody recognised Toby's name, and....this great hero of the Resistance came to visit us! He is the president of A.N.P.P.I.A (Associazione Nazionale Perseguitati Politici Italiani Antifascisti). anppia1 There is a link here with more info about the organisation. http://www.anppiasardegna.it/ As you can imagine, I am really proud of Toby and his contribution to the history of anti-Fascism.