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Recently, Milan’s police force--specifically Inspector Pissani and the Superintendent--have come under fire for the death of a falsely-accused young anarchist while they detained him. In the first official report, the man’s fall from a fourth-floor window was classified as “accidental;” in a later report, it was classified as “suicide.” Meanwhile, the Maniac--who has been arrested 12 times before for “impersonation”--has been hauled into the same police station. He seizes the opportunity to
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START: Pissani: Good morning. Good morning. What can we do for you?
Maniac turns.
Maniac: Hurt your hand?
Pissani: It’s nothing.
Maniac: Why are you rubbing it then? Give yourself a bit of confidence?
[... … …]
END: Maniac: The song of anarchy itself. ‘Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts.’
Raminghi per le terre
E per i mari
Per un’idea lasciamo
I nostri cari
All: Nostra patria è il mondo intero
Nostra legge è la libertà
Ed un pensiero, ed un pensiero
Nostra patria è il mondo intero
Nostra legge è la libertà
Ed un pensiero
Ribelle in cuor ci sta
Ma torneranno, Italia
I tuoi coscritti
Ad agitar la pace
Dei diritti!
For full extended scene, please refer to the clips or the script edition cited here: Fo, Dario, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, translated by Gillian Hanna, Samuel French, 1980, pp. 16-37.
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