Founded in Brescia in 1943, the Fiamme Verdi were a partisan formation of Catholic and popular inspiration operating mainly in eastern Lombardy 1. They took their name from the green insignia in the shape of a stylized flame on the uniform of the Alpini, from which departments came most of the former soldiers of the very first teams 2. Already during the First World War, within the Alpine troops, there had been an assault department with the name Fiamme Verdi, part of the 3rd Italian army corps on the front of the Adamello group 3. From the Alpini the Fiamme Verdi borrowed the organizational and military structure and most of the personalities of the commands. Furthermore, many partisans and patriots who joined the groups, brigades and divisions came from the ranks of this army corps: they were young people in arms before 8 September, draft dodgers of the RSI or veterans of the armir or from the other fronts of the fascist invasion wars 4. 1 This contribution arises from the reworking of materials and texts that make up the backbone of the website of historical interest www.fiammeverdibrescia.it, digital organ of the Fiamme Verdi Association of Brescia. The original texts were composed by Danilo Aprigliano in 2014, with the historical supervision of Rolando Anni and Roberto Tagliani. Those materials formed the basis for Tagliani's speech at the Udine conference on 6 February 2016. On the occasion of the publication of the proceedings, Tagliani selected the materials to be included in this essay, while Aprigliano physically drafted the definitive version, enriching it with the notes accompanying bibliographies. 2 See D. Morelli, The mountain does not sleep. The Green Flames in the upper Valcamonica, Brescia, Morcelliana, 2015 (i ed. 1968), pp. 20 ff. 3 See P. Morisi, Fiamme Verdi. Stormtroopers in the First World War. Adamello-Vallagarina-Monte Pasubio-Monte Grappa-Altopiano dei Sette Comuni, Bassano del Grappa, Itinera Progetti Editore, 2012. 4 See, in particular, The path of freedom. Documents of the Brescian Resistance, edited by R. Tagliani, D. Aprigliano, The Brescian Green Flames: from «the rebel» to the battles of Mortirolo, in The autonomous formations in the Italian Resistance, edited by T. Piffer, Venice, Marsilio, 2020 , pp. 151-167.