The famous journalist, former director of several national newspapers, is said to Maria Pacini Fazzi Editore in his book on the long and fascinating history of the noble lineage from which
Aristocracy? "There is no" . This emerges from the pages of exciting " The blood is water. The Doge, the saint, the adventurer, the Prince of the Mongols and other relatives, the book with which Giulio Giustiniani , crossing centuries and continents, says of his family, descendants of noble origins ancient, edited by Maria Pacini Fazzi of Lucca.
famous journalist, former director of several national newspapers, now in retreat in Percoto (Udine), where he lives with his Nonino wife Elizabeth, Giustiniani in this book brings to life the great past of his ancestors, celebrities or otherwise, that the author, without any intention of celebration, back to himself and to his knowledge in the sign of the iron, inculcatagli by his maternal grandfather, that ' blood is water and nothing defines the aristocracy as such, and then the aristocracy does not exist. is not a class or a class. Noble is only those who added a good surname, that if there is not bad, some real and personal merits: culture, sensitivity, education, hard work. The rest is foolishness and pride. " It is no coincidence, in fact, that his daughters always say "Which is much more important the Nonino family name, which is a brand, that of Justinian, which is a memory."
The book, which almost looks like an intimate story to use for their children, thus represents an original contribution to the few studies on the aristocratic world, in which the reader is led through centuries and costumes of "who is born," as it was once the noble, pitch curious and casual, sometimes reckless, reconstructing a fine story, one with the lower-case s, which historians often overlook.
Without sticking to a strictly chronological narrative, but instead allowing himself digressions that enhance the performance at times even romance, the book describes how that world really was an aristocrat and was marked by what : "faith in God, sense of proportion, the love of beauty, the art of the last family taught her not to dissipate at all, neither property nor memories. How to meet the most simple, almost everyone else. How to live by giving a meaning to live. "
The story begins with the characters of the branch breast, and the Tuscans Sardi Mazzei and then to address those of his father's side, the Venetians and the Florentines Giustiniani Pandolfini, and end on time closest to us with brief glimpses related to the close circle of parents and siblings.
Thus, the n this autobiographical tale through the eyes of a terrified child who tries in vain in the past, a sign of his fate, we find everything from an eighteenth-century Lucchese banker failed to Amsterdam and reduced to to the farmer in Dutch Guyana between black slaves from the senses too bright, an Italian patriot who finds himself fighting for independence as a spy U.S. against the British, the daughter of a famous writer who lies dying in his bed, tortured by tuberculosis, and invokes the great father and far away, two nuns who ask God to "agony for himself and joy for the parents' , a spendthrift adventurer who shocked the Polish court. And then: a monaco who must leave the convent, until you get to a woman who falls in love with a great romantic poet, passionate and unfaithful like her, and yet another who, overwhelmed by feelings, leaving the Florentine husband to flee to St. Petersburg with an officer of the Tsar who descends from even a prince of the Mongol Golden Horde Genghis Khan .
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