title: Sante Notarnicola
text: # Sante Notarnicola
  
  Sante Notarnicola (15 December 1938 – 22 March 2021) was an Italian communist militant, robber, murderer and poet.
  
  He died due to complications from influenza, in Bologna, after recovering from COVID-19.
  
  ## In popular culture
  
  Notarnicola was portrayed by Don Backy in the 1968 crime film Bandits in Milan, directed by Carlo Lizzani.
  
  