Aniello Califano

In Santojanni's workshop, Califano met Rocco Pagliare, Salvatore Di Giacomo, Alfonso Fiordelisi, Vincenzo Migliaro, and Arturo Colautti.

Upon returning to his family in Sorrento and Sant'Egidio del Monte Albino, Califano met his mother's lady-in-waiting, the pagan Stella Pepe, already twice a widow, with whom he would have four children.

In 1911, he published "Ninì Tirabusciò" set to music by Gambardella: they are verses dedicated to an eccentric sciantosa who pretends to speak French.

In a room on the ground floor of the villa, Califano set up a sort of small "conservatory", where the song "'O Surdato 'nnammurato" seems to have been written; he delivered the verses to Cannio.

He assumed extreme unction, but the priest had been called by his mother Rispoli to convince Califano to recognize his children with Stella Pepe; on his deathbed, he agreed.

The coffin was transported to the municipal cemetery of Sant'Egidio del Monte Albino on an agricultural cart which, after the function, was to be publicly burned.