Project Gutenberg 2025-07-27 Public domain in the USA. 300 Costa, Enrico 1841 1909 Giovanni Tolu, vol. 2/2 : $b Storia d'un bandito sardo narrata da lui medesimo $aSassari :$bDessì, $c1897. Barbara 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) "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.) 20240811023935costa 1897 IT Reading ease score: 45.9 (College-level). Difficult to read. it Tolu, Giovanni, 1822-1896 Brigands and robbers -- Italy -- Sardinia -- Biography Sardinia (Italy) -- History HV Text Category: Historical Novels 476616 2025-07-30T08:46:19.823191 text/html 448824 2025-07-27T13:02:03 text/html 879615 2025-07-30T08:46:29.391128 application/epub+zip 875831 2025-07-30T08:46:21.744125 application/epub+zip 309049 2025-07-30T08:46:20.745151 application/epub+zip 984024 2025-07-30T08:46:34.701032 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 941178 2025-07-30T08:46:28.531052 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 407578 2025-07-30T08:46:18.058138 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 387650 2025-07-27T13:02:03 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 14257 2025-07-30T08:46:34.854055 application/rdf+xml 13872 2025-07-30T08:46:21.027088 image/jpeg 3034 2025-07-30T08:46:20.887131 image/jpeg 1016171 2025-07-30T08:46:19.894152 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog it.wikipedia