An important lot once owned by Lieutenant Pilot Umberto Ajello, later Podesta of Livorno

An important lot once owned by Lieutenant Pilot Umberto Ajello, later Podesta of Livorno.
The lot consists of a boxed Silver Medal of Military Valor, a silver and enamel table plaque detailing the reason for awarding the MAVM, and a batch of telegrams the Pilot Officer received from prominent political figures of the time.
A standout among them is a telegram sent to him with four signatures, two of which are illegible, one from the tenor Beniamino Gigli and the other from Antonio Puccini, son of Maestro Puccini. One telegram is signed by a key figure in the fascist regime and postwar politics, Fortunato Polvani. Indeed, Polvani was found in the most aggressive postwar black paramilitary groups, such as the Mussolini Armed Squads (SAM), the Anti-Communist Clandestine Army (ECA), and the Fasci di azione Rivoluzione Revolutiona (FAR). Indeed, their leaders were Fortunato Polvani (Black Brigades), former federal commander of the MANGANIELLO Black Brigade in Florence and, at the time of the Giuliano bandit attacks, leader of the national Anti-Bolshevik Front in Palermo; Nino Buttazzoni (Np/Decima MAS); and Pino Romualdi (former deputy secretary of the Republican Fascist Party of the RSI).

Fortunato Polvani, directly involved in the war for Sicilian independence, was instrumental, along with Buttazzoni and others, in the underground connections between Zionist and neo-fascist groups in Sicily, including through the so-called Giuliano gang. As we read in various Italian intelligence documents, "the gang is to be considered at the complete disposal of the Black Formations."

The medal of valor was awarded to him "On the Field" in November 1940; war had officially broken out in June 1940, in the skies above Thessaloniki.