This is the story of Beppo Cordiale, an advocate of the early nineteen-hundreds from a small farming village in the foothills of the Aspromonte in southern Italy. Inspired by the social ideals of both his best friend and his mentor, he plans to implement changes that would improve the lives of his fellow villagers. . His efforts are thwarted by an ambitious and greedy adversary who falsely accuses him of attempted murder and has him convicted during a corrupt trial. Escaping prison, Beppo meets with Giuseppe Musolino, the famous Calabrian bandit, and discovers the difference between vendetta revenge and justice.
This book was originally published in 1978. The London Magazine is briefly told in the accomplisments and failures of its four editors, and during the fourteen months of his editorship, 1820-21, John Scott succeeded in establishing the London as one of the finest literary periodicals of the nineteenth century. John Taylor, the second editor, maintained the high quality of the magazine by securing many excellent writers. But by the end of 1825, the first year of Henry Southern's editorship, the magazine had lost most of its distinguished writers. When Charles night began editing the London in 1828, its great period was already a memory. This book presents a brief history of the magazine alongside the index.
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