In this short paper I celebrate the life of Angelo Cassatella. Angelo was one of my colleagues –
among those who are scattered everywhere! For this particular "strange" case of our connection,
though he was in my own old institute (Laboratorio di Astrofisica Spaziale, CNR), we really knew
each other since 1980 in the historical ESA–VILSPA center (Villafranca del Castillo, Spain),
where he was resident astronomer and I was a frequent visitor and user of the IUE (International
Ultraviolet Explorer) via that site. This brief remembrance does not list the many important
scientific contributions of Angelo, but simply paints his humanity through a few episodes of daily
life that will stay in my mind forever