What a woman?
As The Times notes, as a member of Italy’s Resistance, fighting German and Italian Fascist forces in World War II, Lidia Menapace hid explosives under her clothes, delivered maps and antifascist propaganda slipped between the pages of works by Cicero (no doubt “The Good Life”), and she brought medicine by bicycle to wounded Resistance partisans hiding in the Italian mountains. She later became an author and essayist – a member of the collective that founded the left-wing newspaper Il Manifesto. To top that off, at age 82 she became a senator in the Italian Parliament.
Senora Menapace was struck down Covid-19 in the northern city of Bolzano and succumb on Dec. 7. She was 96.
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