In the same year, his father was killed in action in Derna during the Italo-Turkish War, while leading a bayonet charge, being posthumously awarded the Silver Medal of Military Valor.

[1][2][3][4] During the First World War he fought on Cima Bocche and the Colbricon, in the Lagorai mountains; he lost his brother, also named Saverio, killed in action on the Karst Plateau during the Tenth Battle of the Isonzo.

Fenulli went into hiding and joined the Roman Resistance, becoming one of the leaders of the Clandestine Military Front and helping form and organize armed bands both within and outside the city.

Betrayed by an informer, he was arrested by the Germans in February 1944, and after a period of detention and torture in the SS prison in Via Tasso, he was executed in the Fosse Ardeatine massacre on March 24, 1944.

Thus the dream that had come true and now vanished is reawakened: we hope to see Italy powerful without threat, rich without corruption, excelling, as before, in sciences and arts, in all civil industriousness, safe and fruitful of every good in its renewed national life.