Gaetano Fichera (8 February 1922 – 1 June 1996) was an Italian mathematician, working in mathematical analysis, linear elasticity, partial differential equations and several complex variables. He was born in Acireale, and died in Rome.
He was born in Acireale, a town near Catania in Sicily, the elder of the four sons of Giuseppe Fichera and Marianna Abate. His father Giuseppe was a professor of mathematics and influenced the young Gaetano starting his lifelong passion. In his young years he was a talented football player. On 1 February 1943 he was in the Italian Army and during the events of September 1943 he was taken prisoner by the Nazist troops, kept imprisoned in Teramo and then sent to Verona: he succeeded in escaping from there and reached the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, spending with partisans the last year of war. After the war he was first in Rome and then in Trieste, where he met Matelda Colautti, which become his wife in 1952.
If you ever had the time
Would you try to make it fine
If your promises were real
Then maybe love is what I'd feel
But you seem to be so sad
Like a fairytale gone bad
And I don't know what to say
But I can't keep playing games
I can stay now, I can stay now
Or walk away, or turn away
I can stay now, I can stay now
Or walk away, or turn away
So I stayed alone tonight
Hoping things might turn out right
Wonder if you feel the same
Maybe I'm as much to blame
I can stay now, I can stay now
Or walk away, or turn away
I can stay now, I can stay now
Or walk away, or turn away
As the candle burns away
I want you another day
Reading letters that you've sent
Well is it consciences you meant
If I stay with you tonight
Though I know it won't be right
If I turn the other way
There'll be nothing else to say
I can stay now, I can stay now
Or walk away, or turn away
I can stay now, I can stay now
Or walk away, or turn away
I can stay now, I can stay now
Or walk away, or turn away
I can stay now, I can stay now
Or walk away, or turn away
I can stay now, I can stay now
Or walk away, or turn away
I can stay now, I can stay now