Here's to you Nicola e Bart

This moving tune has been haunting me for the last few days.
No idea where it came from, except that when your mind doodles around in search for melodic lines that matter, tunes that matter tend to pop up.
It may have something to do with the time of year, just before Easter.
When checking the facts just now, I read that they were sentenced to death on 9 April 1927...

So here's to these two men, whose suffering nearly caused a global revolution, 85 years ago.

"If it had not been for these things, I might have lived out my life talking at street corners to scorning men.  I might have died, unmarked, unknown, a failure.  Now we are not a failure.  This is our career and our triumph.  Never in our full life could we hope to do such work for tolerance, for justice, for man's understanding of man as now we do by accident.  Our words - our lives - our pains -nothing!  The taking of our lives - lives of a good shoemaker and a poor fishpeddler - all! That last moment belongs to us - that agony is our triumph."
(Statement attributed to Bartolomeo Vanzetti, shortly before he and Sacco were executed on the electric chair, in May 1927)