A collection of reflections and contributions on different issues and authors: the history of death, the First of May festivity, forms and victims of intolerance, the Manzonian "plague." They are minor fruits of a vocation for the study of history that animated the generation of those born under Fascism and raised after World War II, driven to the study of history by a desire for redemption and social justice learned from the protagonists of resistance to fascism such as Antonio Gramsci and Marc Bloch.