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Fabrizio Cardinali, aged 72, does not crave bright city lights.

In fact, he has no use for electricity and has lived entirely off the grid for more than half a century.

That makes him one of the few people in Europe unconcerned about rising energy costs this winter.

Cardinali, whose long white beard makes him look like Karl Marx, the poet Walt Whitman or a slimmed-down Santa Claus, lives in a stone farmhouse in the hills of the Verdicchio wine country near Ancona, on Italy’s eastern Adriatic coast.

By choice, he has no electricity, gas or indoor plumbing.

“I was not interested in being part of the world as it was going.

So I left everything – family, university, friends, the sports team, and set off in a completely different direction,” he said, sitting in the kitchen, wearing patched corduroy trousers.

“Giving something up is not masochistic.

You give something up to obtain something else that is more important,