“Uncle Giuseppe became a journalist and specialised in the Middle East, working for a long time as a correspondent from Israel for the weekly magazine ‘Panorama’. He too, like many members of the family, was an original type: a friend told me that in the 1970s, when he joined his grandmother Luisa on holiday (…) on the island of Elba in the summer, his uncle used to introduce himself as a ‘duke’, from where no one knows. In that guise, he would go to the butcher in Capoliveri who would rush to kiss his hand when he entered the shop. (…)’ (pp. 85-86).
Uncle Beppo died in 1999.
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