Militancy and then the theatre, the gossip, the Parisian evenings. Farewell to my friend Giorgio Ferrara

We met at the age of seventeen, we shared a part of the road between Rome and France. The experience of “Buonincontri” will remain incomparable confirmation of the special human paste that united us

In the Unit of 21 April 1963 a photo eloquently frames the faces of Giorgio Ferrara and Duccio Trombadori at the head of a student procession protesting against the execution of Julian Grimau, Spanish communist leader, prisoner in Franco’s prisons, sentenced to death by strangulation. It is the most important memory I have of Giorgio, now that he is gone, after a long-announced disappearance but no less painful for those closest to him in terms of intimacy, friendship and brotherhood.