- Emma D'Aquino with Consul Generale Francesco Genuardi, Letizia Airos, and Francesca Di Matteo
- It all begins with a couple of stolen vegetables, following a childhood marked by hunger and poverty. The son of a Sicilian worker, Marano had four brothers and grew up in a home that “smelled of hunger.”
- With Consul General Francesco Genuardi
- It gets hard to follow the unbelievable succession of events in which he is involved. Pages of criminal life, involving trials, escape attempts, sentences, prison transfers…
- Emma D'Aquino the students of St. John University
- Emma D’Aquino’s is an accurate, detached, controlled, careful tale by a deeply sensitive reporter.
- Emma D'Aquino at St. John University with Prof. Katia Passerini and Letizia Airos
- There are several aspects that stand out about him. In his words, we make out a sort of moral code, his “immoral morals.” Something primordial, ancestral, that comes from his humble and misfortunate origins, a clear lack of civic culture.
- Emma D'Aquino at St. John University
- And next to this man, far away but intimately close, is a woman: his wife. Sarina never abandoned him and his words spell out his love for her. The pages dedicated to this couple, to their children, are very intense.
- Emma D'Aquino with Ambassador Mariangela Zappia
- I can’t help but wonder: did he become violent in prison or was he already violent? Had he been born in a different social context would he have become the same man? Could his life have taken a different path?
- The book leaves us with a sense of hope, beyond the tragic story it tells. It traces a path towards “redemption.” Many questions about how to live and build a life behind bars today remain.
- Images of the presentation in New York