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100	1		_aCosta, Enrico, _d1841-1909
245	1	0	_aGiovanni Tolu, vol. 1/2
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2025-07-27
508			_aBarbara Magni and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by Sardegna Digital Library)
520			_a"Giovanni Tolu, vol. 1/2: Storia d'un bandito sardo narrata da lui medesimo" by Enrico Costa is a narrative non-fiction work written in the late 19th century. It presents the life of the famed Sardinian bandit Giovanni Tolu as a first-person confession, framed by the author-editor’s historical notes on banditry in Logudoro. The focus is on Tolu’s character, codes of honor, and the social forces shaping outlawry, with intersections to other notorious figures of Sardinia’s bandit tradition. The opening of the volume recounts how an elderly visitor reveals himself as Tolu to the author, asking to correct myths by dictating a candid, unvarnished life story; Costa agrees and vows to publish the confession faithfully, adding only brief notes. Before Tolu speaks, Costa inserts a sweeping historical sketch of banditry—from biblical and European precedents to centuries of Sardinian cases—showing how feudal protections, state brutality, romantic legend, and political upheavals fostered and distorted the phenomenon. He contrasts the older “honor-bound” bandit with later criminal forms, positioning Tolu as the last representative of the former. The narrative then begins with Tolu’s childhood in Florinas: a large, once-comfortable family fallen on hard times, a strict and upright father, a twin brother, and years as a church sacristan before turning to hard agricultural work. After his father’s death he shoulders family responsibilities, labors across the Sassari countryside, buys a prized black horse, and keeps aloof from taverns and flirtations—sketching a diligent, self-controlled youth before any crime enters his life. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cSassari: Dessì, 1897
653			_aTolu, Giovanni, 1822-1896
653			_aBrigands and robbers -- Italy -- Sardinia -- Biography
653			_aSardinia (Italy) -- History
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76574
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