Chapter IV
D'Aiazzo was a robust fifty-year-old man but was not tall, around one meter sixty-five. He had brown curly hair which was still thick but, in 1969, he was going bald on the top of his head, and was looking like the start of a tonsure. Perhaps to make up for it, he had grown a beard. My friend Vittorio was a hero of the anti-Nazi resistance: in 1943, as a very young deputy commissioner, he had been one of the fighters during the first anti-German insurrection in Europe, known as the Four days of Naples, when his city had liberated itself from the German occupiers, and during which many of his colleagues in the Neapolitan Police Headquarters had been killed, including his direct adjutant of that time, a certain brigadier Marino Bordin of whom he spoke with admiration. Despite the
