Vittorio, The Man With A Beard: A Novel
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Already published for the first time in 2010 with GDS Edizioni and now out of print, this novel has been revised and greatly modified by the author and is published and in the new version with Tektime. It is based on the figures of the deputy police commissioner Vittorio D'Aiazzo and his friend Ranieri Velli, characters who are also present in other works by the author. The story unfolds in the year 1972, after the novel ”Il metro dell’amore tossico” (distributed by Tektime, not yet translated into English), set in 1969, and takes place partly in New York and partly in Turin as did the narrative of the aforementioned novel. We also find, together with the two main characters, several supporting figures including the interested publisher Mark Lines and the icy billionaire Donald Montgomery, former director of the FBI in New York and now a member of the Senate and candidate for the Presidency of the United States against the outgoing president M. N. Richard. On the evening of March 30 1972, during an electoral banquet organized by Montgomery, a wealthy young woman is shot dead. She is his great elector, wife of the very rich Peter White, and a systematically adulterous woman who in the 50s had been Vittorio’s lover and in 1969 Ranieri’s lover. A mysterious individual suddenly appears at the door of the dining room, and after killing a security guard who was in the way, kills the woman and flees managing to lose all trace of himself. Of the murderer, masked in the upper part of the face, only the massive size, the modest height and the large grayish beard, characteristic features of the deputy police commissioner Vittorio D'Aiazzo, appear evident to the guests, among whom sits Ranieri Velli; moreover, in those same hours Vittorio was not in Italy but in New York with his girlfriend Marina Ferdi, widow of the late commissioner Verdoni, once Vittorio’s deputy. No less, D'Aiazzo’s name is included in the list of guests at the private banquet. Apart from Ranieri Velli, clouded by his friendship, the witnesses recognize and point to the deputy police commissioner as the killer. He is accused of murder, together with his partner, by the New York prosecutor Maxwell, friend and supporter of Montgomery. The latter wants to show that it was not, as the outgoing president Richard insistently insinuates, a fake attack on his person which he organized himself for electoral publicity, that unfortunately ended badly because the shooter missed the target. The district attorney is fully intent on having Vittorio convicted based on an alleged motive of passion: his hatred for the woman who had abandoned him at the time. The deputy police commissioner and his girlfriend are extradited to New York for the preliminary trial which, as we know, in the United States takes place in the courtroom, in the presence of jury and judge. At this point we are still only at the beginning of the novel. Several pages among those that follow present phases of the debate. D'Aiazzo’s young lawyer, Ms. Sarah Ford, hypothesizes in the fir
Guido Pagliarino
Guido Pagliarino è laureato in Economia e Commercio all’Università di Torino con una tesi di ricerca storica pubblicata a cura dell’Istituto di Storia Economica e Sociale. Di particolare interesse durante i suoi studi erano state la medesima disciplina e la Storia delle dottrine economiche e sociali, sotto le guide dei compianti professori Carlo Cipolla e Mario Abrate. Negli anni, insieme ad altri interessi culturali, è continuato quello storico e Pagliarino ha pubblicato diversi saggi su pensiero e storia cristiani. È autore inoltre di romanzi e versi. Per la sua opera edita fin al 1996, nel 1997 gli è stato assegnato il "Premio della Cultura della Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri". Trascurando i volumi più antichi, l'autore ha pubblicato negli anni 2000 i seguenti libri, in parte scritti nel decennio precedente: a) Editi dalla 0111 Edizioni: Il mostro a tre braccia e I satanassi di Torino, due romanzi brevi, 2009 (FUORI CATALOGO © GUIDO PAGLIARINO) ISBN 978-88-6307-195-5 - Svolte nel tempo, 2011 (FUORI CATALOGO © GUIDO PAGLIARINO) (PRIMO ASSOLUTO sezione "Narrativa edita" al Premio Creativa VI Edizione : http://www.edizionicreativa.it/content/cms/db/pages/54/risultati%20premio%20creativa.pdf ) libro: ISBN 978-88-6307-350-8 e-book: ISBN 978-88-6578-039-8 b) Editi da GDS Edizioni: - Vittorio il barbuto, romanzo breve, 2010 ISBN 9788896961537 - Creazione ed Evoluzione, saggio, 2011 (FUORI CATALOGO © GUIDO PAGLIARINO) (MENZIONE SPECIALE DELLA GIURIA al "Premio Nazionale di Arti Letterarie 2010, sezione inedito": http://www.pagliarino.com/images/premio_10_arti_letter_500x364.JPG ) Edito, FINALISTA premiato con diploma al "Concorso Mario Pannunzio 2011": ( http://www.pagliarino.com/premio3_Pannunzio_finalista_2011.htm ) Edito FINALISTA premiato con medaglia e diploma al "Premio Marchesato di Ceva 2014" ( http://www.pagliarino.com/premio_Marchesato_Ceva_finalista_2014.htm ) libro: ISBN 97888896961759 e-book: ISBN 978-88-96961-82-7 - Il terrore privato, il terrore politico, romanzo, 2012 (FUORI CATALOGO © GUIDO PAGLIARINO) (ROMANZO 2° CLASSIFICATO al Premio internazionale Marguerite Yourcenar 2013 Punctum Literary Agency.eu : http://www.pagliarino.com/images/Premio_Yourcenar_Pagliarino_tra_i_5_finalisti.jpg ) libro ISBN 978-88-97587-62-0 e-book ISBN 978-88-97587-71-2 - Sindòn la misteriosa Sindone di Torino, saggio, 2013 (© Editrice GDS) (("Menzione d'onore della Giuria" al "Premio Nazionale di Arti Letterarie Città di Torino" - X Edizione: http://www.pagliarino.com/Sindon_segnalazione_pr_Arti_letter.htm ) libro ISBN 978-88-67820-55-9 e-book ISBN 978-88-67820-88-7 c) Editi dalla Prospettivaeditrice: - La vita eterna; sull’immortalità tra Dio e l’uomo, 2002 (FUORI CATALOGO © GUIDO PAGLIARINO) (PRIMO ASSOLUTO AL "PREMIO CITTA' DI TORINO 2003": http://www.pagliarino.com/premio2003_c_torino.htm ) ISBN 88-7418-106-X - Gesú, nato nel 6 ‘a.C.’ crocifisso nel 30, 2003 (FUORI CATALOGO © GUIDO PAGLIARINO) ( Segnalazione di Merito al "PREMIO PER LA PACE 2004" del Centro Studi Cultura e Società : http://www.pagliarino.com/premio_pace-2004_gesu'.htm ) ISBN 88-7418-072-1 - Cristianesimo e Gnosticismo; 2000 anni di sfida, 2003 (FUORI CATALOGO © GUIDO PAGLIARINO) Secondo Premio Saggistica al Concorso "Città di Salò" 2005 : http://www.pagliarino.com/premio_salo'_2005.htm ) ISBN 88-7418-177-9 - Il giudice e le streghe, romanzo, 2006 (FUORI CATALOGO © GUIDO PAGLIARINO) (Targa e diploma - Menzione d'onore al "Premio Letterario Nazionale Di Benedetto 2009" :http://www.pagliarino.com/prem_De_Bened-09.htm ) ISBN 978-88-7418-359-3 - Le indagini di Giovanni Marco cittadino romano, romanzo, 2007 (FUORI CATALOGO © GUIDO PAGLIARINO) (Premio Speciale della Critica al Premio Letterario Nazionale "Alfonso Di Benedetto" 2008 : http://www.pagliarino.com/premio-A-Di-Benedetto-2008_indag-Giov-Marc.htm Premiato al Premio "Aldo Cappelli - Romanzo storico" - Concorso Nazionale Letterario GARCIA LORCA : http://www.pagliarino.com/pr_g_lorca-2_capelli_giov_marco.htm ) ISBN 978-88-7418-343-7
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