Farewell to the most decorated partisan in Italy Mario Fiorentini: he commanded the Antonio Gramsci Patriotic Action Group.
He died at the age of 103 Mario Fiorentini. Mathematician and academic, he was one of the best known and most decorated partisans in Italy: with three silver medals for military valor and three war merit crosses. His death was announced by the presidency of theProvincial Anpi of Rome through a statement.
"Ithe Partisan Commander Mario Fiorentini he is no longer with us. With great pain we inform you that a great man, a great friend, a great example has left us". Thus the National Association of Partisans of Italy. In the note, which traces some of his courageous deeds during the years of Nazi-fascist occupation of Rome, it is specified that he left "many memories of his powerful and extraordinary humanity"."It always was alongside his Lucia, the valiant partisan who was his wife", recalled the Anpi. “To daughter Claudia and grandson Suriel – concludes the press release – who have been by his side until the end giving him serenity goes our big affectionate hug ".
The history of the partisan
Born in 1918, Mario Fiorentini in the country's darkest years he was among the key figures in the fight against Nazi-fascism. He helped write some of the most important pages in the history of the Italian Resistance and the liberation of the capital, together with partisans such as Franco Calamandrei, Rosario Bentivegna, Antonello Trombadori, Maria Theresa Regard e Carla Caponi. The most decorated partisan in Italy had been in command of the 'Antonio Gramsci' patriotic action group, which between 1943 and 1944 managed to get the better of three enemy battalions in the heart of the capital. As Corriere della Sera recalls, Fiorentini had several nom de guerre, including Gandi and Fringuello. During the years of the Resistance escaped four times from as many Nazi prisons. After the liberation of Rome it became agent of the Obs,Office of strategic services, one of the US secret services. After the end of the war, the partisan put his weapons aside and started a new life. He graduated in mathematics and carried out studies on homological methods in commutative algebra and in algebraic geometry. For this reason he was also referred to by the appellation of partisan-mathematician. He taught at the Universities of Ferrara, Montreal and MIT in Boston.