In Argentina, Severino de Giovanni was more than just an anarchist fighter. He represented the antifascist rebellion of the first decades of the century as well as the confrontation with the timid and moderate positions that didnt coincide with his methods and ways of acting. For Di Giovanni, the maximum representative of the so-called Expropriating Anarchists, dynamite was a vindictive tool and the best medicine for ending the brutality that the supporters of Fascism wished to implant. However, he knew how to combine direct action with a resolute political formation, such as was the norm during those years. He mad love for the teenage Paulina Scarfó showed his most romantic side which contrasted with the bloodthirsty image of himself that he tried to impress on his enemies and the mainstream press. He lived and died without ever betraying his principles and his name is a key for discussing a topic as actual as it is polemical, that of the use of revolutionary violence.
