In this novel, the story is told really lived from Viareggio Eugenio del Magro, represented here as Eugenio Del Sarto. The parallel story, however, referred to the Transcaucasian Fiodor Levskilyj is from the pen of the author, although any reference historical and geographical correspond to the truth.

The work of Francis Belluomini not leave indifferent the reader who knows the sad history of the twentieth century, the century heir to a modernity characterized by blind faith in reason and progress.

The story of the protagonists, who have experienced the atrocities of the "gulag" Soviets, stands as the paradigm of a medieval experience that no matter can be compared. "What are the" dark ages "?" You may ask after reflection aroused by this novel-document. "At what point can lead to an ideology of barbarism incapable of dealing with the most basic human rights? And what is the role of many Italians that at that time advocated a communist society on the Soviet model? It should be considered premature, a serene and sobering reflection on the history of Italian and you have to wait a few decades for a more balanced or it is time to make peace with a past terrible?".

The reading of the text, therefore, is also an invitation to that sense of intellectual openness that allows the present to build on the past because such "horrors", always there in times of obfuscation rational, never happen again.

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