The Sky Of Nadira. Giovanni Mongiovì

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      Giovanni Mongiovì

      THE SKY OF NADIRA

      Regnum

      On the cover: Luana’s eyes (with courtesy);

      A norman shield, Athens, Museum of war.

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      Copyright © 2019 - Giovanni Mongiovì

      Copyright © 2020 - Arianna Raimondi (translator)

      I don't need to write something indescribable,

      that try without success the description of the immensely perfect,

      the awareness I am raising is already poetry,

      the highest and pure, written by intangible hands,

      conceived by an excellent mind,

      inspired by a huge heart;

      my love, we ended up in the art of God:

      "that one being loves another with ever more indissoluble love".

      That I love you more every day ...

      To Valentina and Tommaso ... lustru dê me òcchii ...

      Summary

      Introduction 6

      PART I – THE STRANGER TIED TO THE POLE 7

      Chapter 1 8

      Chapter 2 12

      Chapter 3 18

      Chapter 4 20

      Chapter 5 22

      Chapter 6 26

      Chapter 7 33

      Chapter 8 35

      Chapter 9 40

      Chapter 10 45

      Chapter 11 48

      Chapter 12 52

      Chapter 13 58

      Chapter 14 62

      PART II – THE WAR OF THE QĀ’IDS 67

      Chapter 15 68

      Chapter 16 72

      Chapter 17 76

      Chapter 18 79

      Chapter 19 82

      Chapter 20 86

      Chapter 21 89

      PART III – THE TRUCE OF MUḤARRAM 91

      Chapter 22 92

      Chapter 23 98

      Chapter 24 102

      Chapter 25 107

      Chapter 26 111

      Chapter 27 116

      Chapter 28 118

      PART IV – THE RETURN OF CONRAD 121

      Chapter 29 122

      Chapter 30 125

      Chapter 31 128

      Chapter 32 133

      Chapter 33 138

      Chapter 34 141

      Chapter 35 146

      PART V - THE PLOTS OF POWER 150

      Chapter 36 151

      Chapter 37 154

      Chapter 38 157

      Chapter 39 161

      Chapter 40 167

      Chapter 41 172

      Chapter 42 179

      PART VI – THE CURSE OF PENTHESILEA 183

      Chapter 43 184

      Chapter 44 188

      Chapter 45 194

      Chapter 46 199

      Chapter 47 204

      Chapter 48 209

      Chapter 49 213

      PART VII - THE CONDITIONS OF FREEDOM 218

      Chapter 50 219

      Chapter 51 224

      Chapter 52 228

      Chapter 53 235

      Regnum - The coral hunter 243

      Others wotks of the autor 244

      Biography 245

      Introduction

      No matter how many rivers flow into the sea, they will never have the name of the waters where they throw themselves for the simply motive that the sea cannot be a reason for a river. In the same way, the beginning cannot replace the definition of the end, nor can it exceed its importance. Look at the source of a river, at the high cliffs from which it flows, taste its waters, and give it a name based on this. It is not the action that makes a man, it is not the hand that perform the action, the reason for everything is the heart. The essence of original sin was not to pick the fruit, but all that moved that gesture. The greed can hide everywhere: in the succulent meat, in the redness of wine, in the shapes of a girl... or at least it is so that justifies himself who surrenders. The truth is that it hides exclusively in the eyes and hearts of those who feel that consuming fire, that devouring flame that is lust.

      Among the illustrious of these people descendants of ancient Greek, a story was told. It was a story that survived the baptism of Christianity and the sword of Islam. Penthesilea, a powerful Amazon, was called to fight in defence of the Trojans. She was a beautiful woman and, as often happens in Greek myths, the goddesses envied her. For this reason, Aphrodite wanted to punish her with the most terrible sentence: every man who had seen her, would have felt such an unstoppable desire to have her, and for certain he would have tried to rape her. Penthesilea hid under her armour for as long as she could, except that, during a battle, Achilles killed her and stripped her of her weapons. Only then was it evident that Penthesilea's curse overcame the same death: in fact, Achilles could not resist it ...

      Beyond the myth, can something so extraordinarily irresistible and cursed really exist to stir the wishes of those who watch it? A beauty of such power to let the malice of hearts emerge, but also ambivalent, as it can bring out the noble virtues in the soul of the deserving.

      The following story is the first of many others about men and women, about blood that binds each of them to their own past and the future. It is the story of this land, its peoples, its wars, its vices and its dormant qualities. However, what follows is the first, and being such is therefore the original ...