Riccardo Fedel

Who is Riccardo Fedel?

Riccardo Fedel was an Italian anti-Fascist, Communist political fighter, and war-time partisan leader

Born into an aristocratic family on his mother’s side, he became a lifelong anti-fascist from an early age. He enlisted in the volunteer Army in 1923 in Modena, becoming a Sergeant. He was discharged in December 1925 following a failed anti-Fascist Action in Ravenna His political actions brought him numerous prison sentences. He became the subject of regular government surveillance for over twenty years and earned a police dossier as being a subversive and dangerous communist. After the Italian Armistice in September 1943 he became commander of the Garibaldi Brigade Romagna, until his death in April 1944.