He was born in Gioia del Colle in 1889 (by Vincenzo e Letizia Pugliese).

Socialist politician, has become the symbol of freedom and equality of men because as a teenager, he fought for the emancipation of the agricultural proletariat.

When he was 13 y.o.

participated in the farmers’

group, born in Gioia del Colle in

1899 to defend the rights of the

poorer classes.

He was admitted to the Italian

Socialist Party and in 1919 was

appointed secretary of the

provincial federation of

socialist.

Born in this period, in Puglia

and in the whole of Italy, a

new political ideology,

fascism. Supported by

farmers and industrialists,

this political movement

achieved power by armed

teams that terrorized the

citizens with violent actions.

Capozzi and all the party of Gioia

del Colle began to be persecuted

by the fascist teams, which in

1922 Nicola picked up and force

him to resigned.

He was confined for 10 years in

Ustica, Ponza, Ventotene and

imprisoned for 3 years and also

placed in the category of the most

dangerous people of Puglia.

At the end of World War II Nicola

was back to Gioia del Colle,

continues to fight for a better

world and decides to subscribe to

Italian Communist Party.

He died in april in 1976.

He has denounced with

his life:The political intolerance

The economic self-

interestThe narrow mindness

He was possessed by

the idea that it would

be enough to reveal

all a reality full of

misery and exploitation, thus

demonstrating that

the part was the truth,

to witness the capitulation of the

ruling classes.

He worked to He worked to create a create a righter righter society with society with a honest a honest behavior behavior and great and great sensibility. sensibility. he proudly he proudly face all the face all the persecutionpersecutions of s of Fascism Fascism even risking even risking his personal his personal interests. interests.