A life too short, an infinite love. What Fina and Severino
Tango love ed'anarchia
SOME 'OF HISTORY: THE DECADE infamous.
The fervor of the Roaring Twenties, the lively nightlife that goes out in the Thirties: is the 'infamous decade' (1930-43), the global economic crisis and the coup of Uriburu. The economic crisis of '29 led to a protectionist policy in developed countries and a change in national productivity, forcing you to invest par earnings in the agricultural production of consumer goods is not the most important accounting. This was pursued its from areas they controlled the lands of the country interested in developing an industrial system only temporarily, pending return to their farm income . This policy, implemented in conjunction with the military oligarchy, led to a repression of workers for you, the institutionalization of electoral fraud to retain power and an alliance with foreign countries more and more difficult to national interests (Roca-Runciman Agreement 1933). This is the context of the facts that tell.
A great passion is the backdrop to this story: that the struggle for justice through the anarchy that swept Argentina at the beginning of 900, with some Europeans
exiled from their dictatorships. As in the case of a young Abruzzo, anarchist and dissident who fled Mussolini's Italy. His story deserves a Hollywood screenplay
but there is a reason why it will never happen. Find out.
SEVERINO JOHN arrives in America in 1922, with his first wife, Teresa Mascullo, and three children. A force to trample on the ground in Argentina, however, falls madly in love with the fifteen-year veniquattro América Scarfo, who belongs to a Catholic family of the local middle class: this does not stop love with Italy and its revolutionary ideas. Scarfo's are a great Calabrian family: father, mother and eight children, including America Josefa, whom everyone calls 'Fina', a masterly school student who becomes now - it's love at first sight - the great love of Severino.
Fina is beautiful, young and irresistibly attracted to this man from the refined manners and eloquence f luente that can awaken in her a passion unknown and very strong. Will be done three years of ardent love of passionate letters, appointments at the school of her, like any teenager in his first crush, long silences and furtive kisses. Fina's brothers will never know the relationship, or will pretend not to know the mother Therese, simple woman, will never realize anything, and the two lovers will never give rise to suspicion. Severino
letters reveal his poetic unexpected in one so cold and so determined, so violent. The ideal anarchist, that he transcends all human affairs, is in a desperate love this soothing, but at the same time, precisely because it is a passion
landlocked, its political action twists into a spiral of violence and death that leads him first and then total isolation to a sort of obsessive paranoia.
Severino For three years he lives with his time is limited, without a moment's breath, and fights a war against everyone, including his anarchist friends, that he has, little by little, keep their distance. Two attacks, with several dead and wounded, marked a turning point in relations with the anarchist movement. The first is the Italian Consulate. Severino's intention is to detonate the bomb in the room of the console. For a series of tragicomic circumstances, the bomb is left atrium Consulate, because it seems that soon after the console should exit. Instead, the bomb explodes among the hundreds of people who are queuing for an entry visa in Italy: nine dead and thirty wounded.
The second attack takes place on Christmas Eve of 1927. A case was filed at the headquarters of National City Bank. In the euphoric atmosphere of the holidays, employees are
buy from a salesman of silk stockings, do not notice the black briefcase, left under a chair by a customer dressed in black, two killed and twenty injured.
anarchist newspapers railed against the bloodthirsty beasts that in the name of anarchy, sow only grief, even the anarchist daily Antorcha, despite a thousand contortions, condemned the attacks. Only Aldo Aguzzi defends Severino and terrorist groups and talking about the wrong answer to state terrorism. John replies to the accusations blow for blow, writes articles on delirious climax, the magazine of which he is editor, spoke on Antorcha, writes refractory to meeting demanding the appointment of a species of world anarchist grand jury to judge his actions . From New York the patriarchs of the anarchist Luigi Fabbri and Vincent Capuana for themselves. Feeling almost authorized by this particular decision, Severino task of following an attack on the cathedral, a dead place, along with Buenaventura Durruti, a bomb on a ship in port and a crew was on strike; robbery Banco de Avellaneda, the central bus station, the company Kloekner van, carrying the wages of employees and the headquarters of the local waterworks. The action, however, finally loses it is the killing of Emilio López Arango, anarchic, new director of the protest.
None of the anarchists can forgive this fratricide and from that moment, the end of January 1930, Di Giovanni is truly alone, because Alejandro Scarfo, brother of Fina, who was also in the anarchist movement, was arrested and others have lost three of his gang life during the robbery. He is left with only the most faithful Paulino, another brother of anarchist Scarfo family, and the immense love of Fina. Designs, therefore, to escape, Colt in hand, Alejandro and then flee with Fina and his brothers in France. The assault on the police van in which there should be a friend succeeds, but the van is filled with nothing but prostitutes. Alejandro is locked in a prison
most inaccessible of Argentina, the asylum criminal Vieytes. Severino is not a man who gives up easily.
The release of Alejandro became his sole purpose for which it obtains more money robbing, in September 1930, the Italian Health Care Workers. With that money, rent a villa, complete with a garden in the area of \u200b\u200bBelgrano, and we should live together with Paulino, Fina,
Gavilan Jorge Tamayo, the man who is only happy when he can fight for the life and Silvio Astolfi. It has a complicated project: free Alejandro, fleeing to Uruguay and from there the ferry to France and to leave the country Fina, making married at Aston, which has retained Italian citizenship.
At the same time not give up his work as publisher and printer-ready edition, elegant and refined, with a limited edition in two volumes, Eliseo Reclus's writings, his favorite author.
to prepare for the small group of anarchists escape unfolds is a must-
action terrorism: in one day blow up three bombs in three different places of the capital, making four deaths. Severino wants to create a climate of anxiety and exasperation to the attention of the police to focus on public policy and think of an anarchist conspiracy of vast proportions. Thus believed to deflect interest in car-anarchists
waxes. On the afternoon of January 30, 1931 he went to the printer for proofreading definitivdel second volume of the writings of Reclus: imprudent, because the police made several raids and arrested, among others, several printers of the Italian origin, virtually all Buenos Aires printers are under control. Exit Printing from two police officers in bor-
Luxembourg institution telling him to surrender.
Severino runs through the alleys of the old and shooting at his pursuers. More than twenty policemen try to block it, they all fire, between two fires was shot and killed a child. Severino suddenly finds himself in an alley, an agent, without hesitation, shoots and breaks down, then runs to take refuge in a hotel. For hotel guests who saw him start to scream, says: "Do not be afraid, do not do anything." At that moment the police burst firing wildly.
Severino, calmly respond and kill a second cop then take the elevator and try wriggling through the roof. He manages, through through a few terraces, to take to a garage, where police are waiting for him and dump him over a hundred shots. Feeling lost, puts the gun to his chest and fires a shot, but the wound is not fatal and only makes him lose consciousness.
agents block it and uploads it to an ambulance being escorted by ten patrols on a motorcycle. In the hospital the surgeons operate immediately, but is not life threatening. The President himself ordered the Interior Ministry, Matias Sánchez Sorondo, John transferred immediately to a prison and to establish a military tribunal to judge
. General Medina is with emergency decree, appointed chief justice martial. On the night of John and Paulino Scarfo are judged and sentenced to death by firing squad. It occurs only unexpected. Lieutenant Juan Carlos Franco, born
appointed public defender, does his job seriously and takes defensive pleading that accuses the police and the use of terrorist methods instrumental that the government wants to make the story of John. But, once the harangue, the prosecution asks for his arrest and im-mediate
proposed degradation and expulsion from the army.
The Court pronounced the sentence of death by Severino and then satisfied the prosecutor, adding the expulsion from State Lieutenant Franco, who is esiliatoa Montevideo. Hundreds of people crowded outside the prison to see the famous bandit, some ministers, some famous actor and other staff take a closer look at "the bloodthirsty beast." John refuses to see anyone and will only accept the visit of Therese and Fina, who has come with the excuse to greet his brother.
dawn on 1 February 1931 John Seve-rino is conducted in the courtyard of the Central Prison to be shot. It is said that he asked the sergeant who commanded the plo-tone to express his last wish and they immediately put his hand to the package of cigarettes. "I do not want to smoke
, Severino said, I want a coffee. Sweet, I recommend ". Brought him a cup he could hardly stand up because the knife's clenched wrists so clumsy that he drank coffee and returning the cup, he rebuked the sergeant:
"I said sweet, very sweet coffee, patience, will be for the next time, " es'avviò onto the yard.
None of the eight soldiers who made up the firing squad, was wrong. Paulino Scarfo was shot an hour later, he was not yet twenty-one.
Severino was also a danger to the public body. Buried during the night, in haste, in the Chacarita cemetery in an unmarked grave, the police discovered with horror that the grave the next morning, was covered with red roses. It was ordered that the body was removed
and thrown into mass graves. But even then, for days, every morning, agents found the grave covered with red roses. Do not you ever found out who the mysterious person who brought the flowers at night.
THE LETTERS Severino Di Giovanni wrote to his friend Fina were unearthed by Osvaldo Bayer, the Argentine journalist who was held on anarchism accurate research culminated in the publication of a critical biography also known in Italy (Osvaldo Bayer, Severino Di Giovanni, the idealist, of violence, Editions series "V. Vallera, Pistoia 1973). The
Scarfò long sought to regain authority from the old writings. The
succeeded, eighty-six. Died in August 2006, at age 93.
Sources
The idealist of violence
Osvaldo Bayer, Ed Necklace Vallera, 1973
The Italian who loved the Ame ica
article Silvia Garnero
Love and Anarchy
article by Antonio Orlando
I have a fever throughout the body
A letter to Scarfo Josefina
Sunday August 19, 1928.
"My friend. I have a fever throughout the body. Your contact me filled with all the sweetness. Never as long these days, so I sipped the sips of life. Before I lived the quiet hours of Tantalus and now, today, today that brought us together forever, live without saziarmi all heard harmonized Niosi love so dear to Shelley and George Sand. We dis- you - in quell'amplesso expansive - how much time I loved you, but vor-rei also tell you how much I love you, because the bread of mind knowing materialize all elected the ideals of the existence man, we sa-RA more tests to guide, filled with so many skills, solver of all our problems, which - and I say with all sincerity a friend, a lover of a fellow Unison will be our good nice and long, enjoying and full feelings of all, big and scon- FINAT forever. When I speak of eternity - all that heart wanted and loved is forever - I allude eternity of love. Love never dies. The love that has sprouted lon- Tano from vice and prejudice, pure and its purity is not can contaminate el'incontaminato is eternity. I wish I could always express your language (Fina always wrote in the Ca- stigliano ed) to sing every moment of time can sweet- areas of ' My soul, you understand that the agitation for strikes -fearing heart, the delicate figures of thought that my tea invaghitesi will never give the "finishing" his elegy. But then - I think that my love is with you- traccambiato with all the might of your youth still bud, I so often read about your black eyes - I am content in knowing that to understand these lines should be re-read more than once tea. You will not have time to write. You must still dedicated to the study. Kiss me as I kiss you. Give duplicate my good fortune that you want. Know that you think always, always, always. You are the heavenly angel who accompanied me in Spain all sad and happy hours of my life and re-refractory beautiful. With you, now and forever. "
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