Alessandro Vizzino eBooks
eBooks di Alessandro Vizzino editi da Babelcube Inc
Venetia Nigra. E-book. Formato EPUB Alessandro Vizzino - Babelcube Inc., 2025 -
Venetia Nigra by Alessandro VizzinoA breathtaking epic among the streets and canals of the Most Serene Republic of VeniceVenice, 1725.A man in Baùta roams the city streets at night, armed.The nobleman Nicolò Testier Gritti is a brilliant young man, desired by women and given to vice. During one of his visits to the Ridotto he falls in love with Elisabetta Pitacchi, whom he wins as a bet after a series of challenges at the Sbaraglino . The love between Nicolò and Elisabetta grows stronger. In Venice, the girl also meets Zanetta Farussi, Gaetano Casanova's wife and little Giacomo's new mother.A few weeks later, Nicolò met Samuele Grozzi, State Inquisitor, and one of the most influential people in the city, whom the patrician had already met at a reception at Sandi Palace. The magistrate asked Nicolò to go to Cremona for him, to collect a violin intended for Antonio Vivaldi. The following day, the art dealer Alfonso Bottin went to Nicolò's residence to propose to the aristocrat a painting by his friend Antonio Canal, which Testier decided to buy, paying the dealer with a scratched coin.In the comfortable life of Nicolò Testier Gritti, however, something begins to crack sudden disappearances, inextricable secrets, new presences, and accusations from which they cannot exonerate themselves start to change the course of his existence. Even Giorgio Aliprandi, Capitan Grande and his brotherly companion, no longer knows which path to follow.Meanwhile, an even greater danger looms over the entire Serenissima...
TrinacrimeStory Of A Mafia Repentant. E-book. Formato EPUB Alessandro Vizzino - Babelcube Inc., 2024 -
TRINACRIME - Story of a Mafia Repentant, by Alessandro VizzinoThis is the story, in novel form, of one of the most relevant exponents of Catania's "Cosa Nostra" in the 1980s and 1990s.TRINACRIME - Story of a Mafia RepentantCatania, San Cristoforo neighborhood, early 1970s. Tonio is the son of a shoemaker, which is why they call him "lu Scarparu." Even as a child, he is a rebel with little interest in school and is more drawn to petty theft. His bravado and desire for freedom lead him to leave Catania to escape to Milan. There he is initiated into robbery and experiences his first prison term.Back in Catania, he acts with his gang, pulling off several hits that put him ingood standing with the local bosses. Thus begins his activity for the famigghia "Purtaventi- Santimarra," which includes extortion, intimidation, and robberies that earn him money, lots of money. Tonio finds love, and builds his family, while in Catania and Sicily flows the blood of wars between rival clans. In the 1990s his criminal rise comes to a halt: First by absconding, then by arrest and imprisonment. And finally, the decision to repent.Today Tonio has paid his debt to justice and rebuilt his life.This novel is based on a true story.