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BOLOGNA – “I came from the South with my cardboard suitcase.” With this verse, many remember on social networks Sante Notarnicola, who died today at the age of 82: thief, “bandit”, as he called himself when he was arrested, communist without a party, poet, writer, innkeeper of Pratello, downtown Bologna. where the most important party is April 25th.
There is no label that is sufficient to describe him, who in 1978 was the first in the list of thirteen names indicated by Red Brigades (walked to jail) as prisoners to be released in exchange for the release of Aldo Moro. The place Contropiano.org He says that in recent weeks he had defeated Covid, he had returned to Bologna, which over the years has become his home. He passed away due to health complications that arose later.
He leaves his wife Delia while his friends from the Mutenye, the pub he ran, I am speechless by the news, which passed by word of mouth in the afternoon. Notarnicola, born in 1938 in Castellaneta, in the province of Taranto, “between misery and social marginalization”, says his biography, when he was 13 years old he met his mother in Turin, where he lived in a “neighborhood-ghetto”. He served in the Fgci and the PCI and then left the party in search of “revolutionary hopes.”
Who brought it, with Pietro cavallero, to form a gang that collected a series of bloody robberies. In ’67 he was arrested after a very brief inaction and sentenced to life imprisonment for the last coup that ended in blood: the gang attacked the Banco di Napoli, in Milan. There was a shootout with the police in the crowd, four dead were left on the ground. In the Notarnicola prison he was the protagonist of the riots to improve the conditions of the prisoners and in his cell he studied, read, wrote. In ’95, in semi-freedom, he became an innkeeper, since 2000 he was free.
In ’72 he published “The Impossible Escape” for Feltrinelli. His figure has inspired film and music. In Carlo Lizzani’s film Banditi a Milano, which tells the story of the Cavellero band, he is portrayed by Don Backy. “Nostalgia e la memoria”, one of his books, became the title of a song on the Frontal Assaults album “No Man’s Land”.
