Francesco Forlani, in his latest book “L’amico spagnolo” (The Spanish Friend), reflects on anarchism and social struggle, the rebellion against all forms of authoritarianism, free love, and the solidarity that defies power. In 1895 London, Errico Malatesta, Europe’s most wanted anarchist, evades the police with his signature cunning. More than a century later, Franck, a nomadic intellectual, follows his tracks and those of the famous revolutionary’s Spanish friend, Pedro Esteve, unaware that he too is about to become a fugitive. Thus begins a story of midnight escapes, hidden identities, and life-saving friendships that echoes the legendary deeds of Malatesta and his comrades. In Saragossa—a city made famous by Jan Potocki’s celebrated Manuscript—Francesco Forlani works on his five notebooks: he writes of authentic facts and figures, of courageous, anarchist, and rebellious women, and of passions that transcend time to reach us today.

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