La storia di Alvaro Impastato; cugino di Peppino; e quella di Andrea; viaggiano in parallelo. Dopo numerose vicissitudini Alvaro; metagrave; palermitano e metagrave; romano; giunge ad una nuova consapevolezza di seacute; e del mondo tramite un percorso politico e morale. Anche Andrea; plasmato da una vita rocambolesca; arriva ad una meta inattesa. Un bildungsroman contemporaneo che intreccia la storia italiana; avvolto da un aura di mistero che segue i personaggi dal caldo sole della Sicilia al rigido gelo di Canada e Svezia.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Author sheds light on an ancient mysteryBy Robert FrippAndrew Bridgefords "1066; the Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry;" brings a fresh interpretation to an amazing; mysterious piece of cloth. This strip of linen seventy meters (230 feet) long; presents an account of events leading up to William the Conquerors successful invasion of England. The traditional interpretation is that the Tapestry was a costly trophy commissioned by a Norman baron or bishop celebrating the Norman victory. Bridgeford disputes that view. He finds conflicting messages stitched onto the fabric; messages that tend to support the French; rather than the Norman; point of view. He even finds support for the English; and perhaps a challenge to Duke Williams right to the English throne. Such messages would have been punished by death; and whoever commissioned and stitched the Tapestry would have taken great risks. Nevertheless; the ambiguous message was embroidered less than a decade after Williams invasion.What were the real intentions of the sponsor who dictated the images and message stitched into the Bayeux Tapestry? The whole tale is here: ambiguous negotiations; fatal misunderstandings; Duke Williams landing; the battle of Hastings; the death of King Harold in battle and the aftermath of war in a ravaged land. The Tapestry (an embroidery; really) was originally longer; but the final scenes are missing. Did fire; damp or rats carry the ending away? Or did fear suborn courage; causing an unknown hand to cut off a dangerous truth in a deadly world? That is one of a thousand mysteries inhering to the Bayeux Tapestry.Nor is that all. The Tapestry brings us a dwarf who may have been a founding father of French literature; and reminds its contemporary viewers of an unlovely tale; of two queen-mothers thrusting their several sons forward; sometimes fatally; in their own lust for royal power. Why? How do these aooarent sub-plots relate? It has been an abiding mystery; one for which Andrew Bridgeford may have supplied - if not the missing end of the cloth - then at least several answers.By Robert Fripp; author;Power of a Woman. Memoirs of a turbulent life: Eleanor of Aquitaine
