Born in Catania on August 24, 1924, shot by the Germans at the Fosse Ardeatine on March 24, 1944, a medical student.
Immediately after September 8, 1943, the young Agnini set out to organise in Rome the university students and anti-fascist high school students of the Monte Sacro district. In October of the same year he had already constituted the ARSI (Italian Student Revolutionary Association), which in February 1944 would merge into the Italian Students Union. At the head of the ARSI the young man set out, with his companions, to collect weapons and information useful in the fight against the Germans. Ferdinando Agnini also provided the press with a sheet whose title was "Our Struggle" and, in collaboration with groups of communist patriots from the V Zone, organised actions against the Nazi-fascists. Captured following denunciation on February 24, 1944, Agnini was tortured in via Tasso and then shot at the Fosse Ardeatine. After the Liberation, on the facade of the "Quinto Orazio Flacco" Institute, in Monte Sacro, a plaque was affixed that reads: "In this Chamber - Even in dark times of living servile - With strong and free senses - He educated mind and heart - Ferdinand Agnini - that at the Fosse Ardeatine on 24.3.1944 -
di Gaetano e Longo Giuseppina
Born in Catania on August 24, 1924, shot by the Germans at the Fosse Ardeatine on March 24, 1944, a medical student.
Immediately after September 8, 1943, the young Agnini set out to organise in Rome the university students and anti-fascist high school students of the Monte Sacro district. In October of the same year he had already constituted the ARSI (Italian Student Revolutionary Association), which in February 1944 would merge into the Italian Students Union. At the head of the ARSI the young man set out, with his companions, to collect weapons and information useful in the fight against the Germans. Ferdinando Agnini also provided the press with a sheet whose title was "Our Struggle" and, in collaboration with groups of communist patriots from the V Zone, organised actions against the Nazi-fascists. Captured following denunciation on February 24, 1944, Agnini was tortured in via Tasso and then shot at the Fosse Ardeatine. After the Liberation, on the facade of the "Quinto Orazio Flacco" Institute, in Monte Sacro, a plaque was affixed that reads: "In this Chamber - Even in dark times of living servile - With strong and free senses - He educated mind and heart - Ferdinand Agnini - that at the Fosse Ardeatine on 24.3.1944 -
di Gaetano e Longo Giuseppina
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