Almerindo Galardo: “You are always talking to a politician”

The black and white photos tell of an Italy… To do. He invites me Maurizio Galardo: “present me with a memory of my father Almerindo… ” . He would have been 100 years old and this story of a century will be the tale. A story in which everything speaks of him, starting with the place: he lived in the Latina city club, as long as he could, accompanied by the care of his daughter Antonella that she too is no longer there. She plays “Ma la notte no..” in the room. To listen to her in the car she would go the long way around if she wasn’t finished yet. It’s there in the black and white photos Moro, Andreotti, De Gasperi and that life of a country to be rebuilt.

Let’s start, not easy. How to start? From a letter, from the letter that Almerindo wrote to in 1953 N’Dindo Nascani the future father-in-law from Setino. Let’s start with his life partner Rosette who is there in the front row surprised, happy, embarrassed, present. A letter with a unique grace, from another world. Maurizio never sits still, his brother Sandro he is more contained although equally emotional. The mayor intervenes Matilde Celentanowho is here as mayor but also from his personal knowledge.

The president of the Ater of Latina sends a letter Enrico Dellapietà because Galardo led that company as well as the ASL and much more. He intervenes Anna De Donato, which opens the testimonies, then we read a passage from Almerindo’s book which recalls the roundup in Castelforte, his town. Maurizio moves, tries to do everything and even more, falls, cries, speaks, intervenes, says goodbye. He can’t stand it and cries. S intervenesilvestro Messina, then Dino Napolitano, Pietro Piccoli, Lello Sisca, Alfredo Loffredo who closes his son Sandro, his niece’s thirteen-year-old daughter plays two songs on the piano Andreina, Sara Morera. There is a song about Castelforte sung by Almerindo… The song of the parties of joviality, of the origins.
Napolitano and Loffredo testify to a DC that coincided with the life of the city. He was a leader, says Napolitano, he was a man of mediation, says Loffredo.
In the room Maurizio greets his new party companions Alessandro Paletta, Franco Addonizio, Nicola Catani and his father Sandro. Among the audience was the deputy mayor Carnevale. The Christian Democrat emotion is felt. Someone had destroyed everything, it was up to the moderates to redo everything and do it better
A better tribute to Almerindo could not have been given. I just want to add the phrase that he said to his son when they wanted him to believe something unlikely… “Remember Maurizio that you are always talking to a politician”.