Sunk in his burgundy leather chair, the man stroking a pet cougar that was lying in her lap.
enormous window behind him dominates the historical center of Verona. The city that once was Rome, which was then Cangrande, then still had to Tosi. It finally became his own. It had become mayor, he was not chief of police, was not a bishop, was not at the top of any power or incorporated, but everybody, from Vicenza, Brescia to the deepest Bassa Veronese would have hesitated to declare the real ruler of the city.
What had cost to build a studio on top of the Torre dei Lamberti? How many people had had to bribe? Or threaten? These were some of the many questions that arose in mind the journalist waiting for the man in front sedutogli ended to contemplate the landscape and gave the interview begins. After a wait that lasted for several agonizing, interminable minutes, he turned the chair burgundy with a creak and Herr Dobermann said with a grin: "So, where we begin? ". (more. ..)
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