Enrico Deaglio concludes his book by paraphrasing Hannah Arendt in
describing Perlasca as "proof that, even in the most impenetrable
darkness, there exists-because it is part of the human spirit-the
temptation of the irreducible, fabulous, word-and-thought-defying
'banality of goodness.'" Perlasca's story also reminds us, however,
that the expression of human goodness in the struggle against human
evil is an enterprise whose success requires not only courage and
perseverance but also skill, craft, art, and imagination.

A man that did what needed to be done. The very definition of a hero.