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 ...

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