rivista anarchica
year 41 n. 362
May 2011


Remembering Luigi Di Lembo

 

Gigi, the boater

For a dossier on the libertarian federalism, we are working with Friends of Pollicino journal of Reggio Emilia, we had contacted. And he agreed to help out. But on March 24 Gigi Di Lembo, who was admitted to hospital in Livorno, he's gone, after a last fulminant disease that is added to many health problems for over 15 years shaped him.

A beautiful memory of Gigi wrote in the weekly anarchist Umanità Nova on April 2, recalling the original figure, as well as passionate and rigorous historical research, including skilled navigator.

We remember him as a dear friend, deep in feeling, that marked the life left in his writings - as in many public interventions, lectures, etc.. - the testimony of a passionate adherence to anarchism, lived as one big family. That family now mourns his loss and that over the years will miss him.

To the west a targeted point
(to Gigi di Lembo)

To the west a targeted
between glare of flat sea wave
advances from afar,
for we only imagine,
brave captain of her Quack
with the crew below, who knows?

Of course, as the season arrives
certain of finding balance rest
Aragon in the male breast
stay there for almost a month
ere parts with wind dejected
in search of a new port.

Still do not see it, but come
that time is still lagging behind,
But only a few meters,
since the blue strip already the horizon
and Gigi is ready to sight the mountain
the island of Ponza and is now here.

Do not see it yet, but there will be.
Winter is gone and he knows it
waiting for her return
watching from all around
now that many of us look
dot the emerald green sea.

Here at Ischia is still in disbelief
that a captain of the most deserving
soft, not too many niceties,
the moorings of an adventurous life
to go where ever you rest.
Maybe it's still early.
But, rest assured, you will!

Jules Élysard

translation by Enrico Massetti