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100	1		_aCosta, Enrico, _d1841-1909
245	1	0	_aGiovanni Tolu, vol. 2/2
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. 2/2 : Storia d'un bandito sardo narrata da lui medesimo" by Enrico Costa is a historical novel written in the late 19th century. It presents the first‑person life story of the Sardinian bandit Giovanni Tolu, blending personal confession, local history, and the social world of Logudoro and the Nurra. Expect a portrait of honor, vendetta, survival, and temptation as Tolu navigates alliances with shepherds, feuds with rivals, and brushes with the law. The central figure is Tolu himself, a shrewd, reflective outlaw whose code and contradictions drive the narrative. The opening of this excerpt finds Tolu insisting on sobriety and caution after separating from his wife, warning that wine and women ruin bandits, yet slipping into a years‑long affair with the gleaner Maddalena, which he abruptly ends when she begs him to elope—after which she abandons her family with another man. He then exposes and eliminates a would‑be informant, the shepherd Salvatore Moro, luring him out by night and shooting him after concluding Moro was working with the carabinieri for bounty. Shifting to the Nurra, Tolu describes its terrain, shelters, and customs; his reading (Reali di Francia, Bible), and his role as a folk healer with striking anecdotes. A vivid episode follows a dream that prefigures a shipwreck at the Carazza Grande: amid storms he salvages wax bricks, confronts Alghero boats, and watches pistachios end up feeding pigs. The narrative next sketches the powerful Antonio Careddu—politics, vendettas, hired killers, and a tangled payment dispute—before recounting Careddu’s later murder over pasture rights and the skewed justice that follows. Finally Tolu reflects on the danger of love for outlaws, recounting discreet affairs with widows and wives, and the section closes as a young, grieving widow in an ovile becomes captivated by his stories. (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/76575
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