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Marco Del Pasqua

• Herausgeber: Marco Del Pasqua
• Kategorie: Sachliteratur, Reportagen, Biografien
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

Umberto is a Milanese physician now close to retirement. By pure curiosity he investigates the origin of his surname and finds out an ancient noble Tuscan origin. A Ghibelline ancestor had taken refuge in 1285 in a Sienese castle and the bishop of Arezzo, Guglielmo of the Ubertini, stirred a rebellion against the city of Siena, which ended months later with a massacre. The protagonist, fascinated by the beauty of the place, decides to buy a house near the castle, now abandoned and inaccessible for years; he leaves Milan to move and spend old age. During the renovations, he finds an ancient Florentine coin, a copper florin, also known as black florin, and Cesira, a clairvoyant, perceives that the coin belonged to a very important person: Dante Alighieri, and was lost in dramatic circumstances. The novel tells the story of Riccardo, a Florentine man who flanked the young Dante Alighieri during the terrible siege of the castle. The story of young Riccardo in the thirteenth century intersects with that of Umberto to our day and, to both, the events that take place in that castle will change their life forever. Umberto, like Riccardo centuries before, will find love in that place. Two protagonists of different ages, in parallel with each other, challenge the unknown by discovering new and unexpected passions. An adventurous history of men, weapons and love that intertwines between the Middle Ages and our days.

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The black florin

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THE BLACK FLORIN

Novel

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THE BLACK FLORIN

Novel

translated by Ivano Mingotti

CX

On how the bishop of Arezzo made the Poggio at Santa Cecilia, in the countryside of Siena, rebel, and how it was taken back.

In that year, at the end of October, Messer Guiglielmino of the Ubertini of Valdarno, who was then bishop of Arezzo, was more of a man of arms, than man of clergy, for his will sending the Ghibellines of the County Of Florence and of Arezzo and Siena, he made rebel to Sanesi a strong fortress of the County of Siena, called Poggio Santa Cecilia, to wage war on Sanesi, so that a great disturbance struck the entirety of the guelphs of Tuscany, but there was a lot of war to be done. For this, the Commune of Siena, with the force of the Florentines, which made many good people in Florenc rodee, and the size of the Guelfs of Tuscany, where Count Guido of Monforte was captain, came to host, got against them, taking in many siege machines, and the siege lasted more than V months. And this bishop, by summoning the entire host of ghibellines in Tuscany, to raise that siege, he didn't have any power, but that part, that of the Guelphs, was more powerful; for that thing, those of the castle having lost their hope of salvation, they came out on the sacred saturday night on April, and many died and were taken, and those who were taken to Siena were hanged or their head cut off, and the castle was completely destroyed to its foundation.

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