It has brought me a great pleasure putting together in 2020–2 this study of the Amendolas, father (liberal democrat, Anti-Fascist, saint and martyr) and son (communist). In my narration I have remained an ‘indipendente di sinistra’ (Australian-Oxfordian or rootless cosmopolitan-style). I have never renounced an Anti-Fascism of my own slant. In my research for this book, I have been helped by email contact with the liberals Elio D’Auria and Antonella Amendola, who may well end up wondering if Rosario Romeo was not right about me and ‘Botany Bay’. Giovanni Cerchia, from further to current Left and the academic director of the Fondazione Giorgio Amendola, together with Prospero Cerabona, the foundation’s president, have also generously assisted me, both in my research and, importantly, in obtaining quality reproductions of many of the photographs that illustrate this text, whether sourced directly from the foundation or from the Istituto Gramsci in Rome.