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As Bruno himself recounts:
“I was traveling by train and I don’t usually pay for the train ticket, I hid under the coach seats when the conductor passed by and if the opportunity arose, I would steal also, I only worried about being taken by the police …”.
At 23 he married with Iolanda Lo Gatto. However, he does not want to receive the Sacrament of Matrimony and only to satisfy his future wife complies to celebrate it in the sacristy (of a church).
During the civil war in Spain he started as a volunteer, attracted by the mirage of good pay, and remained there for three years. He makes friends with a German Protestant soldier who instills hatred in him for the Church and the Pope. After the Spanish war, before returning home, he enters an armory in Toledo and buys a dagger, on whose handle he writes: “Death to the Pope”.
Having arrived home, full of worries in search of a job and for the confusions on his recent religious problem.