The Rosselli Cantata: A Brief Family Chronicle - Softcover

Maulucci, Anthony S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1502307049 ISBN 13: 9781502307040

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

Born into poverty in Southern Italy, Salvatore Rosselli stumbles upon success in America after giving up the search for the cousin who murdered his father in their native town of Apulia. Having pursued his father’s killer to Naples and then New York City, Salvatore meets Renata, a beautiful young woman from Rome, while hunting for Gatto Rosselli on Manhattan’s Lower East Side in 1925. He falls in love, and Renata agrees to marry him if he gives up his quest for revenge. He capitulates, marries Renata, starts a business, and raises a large family. Blessed with good fortune in the new world, Salvatore is nevertheless tormented by his vow to avenge his father’s death. His opportunity finally comes thirty-eight years later, when Salvatore, an ailing middle-aged man, is resting in a deserted public park. But a strange, final twist of fate convinces Salvatore to forsake vengeance and when his end comes a short time later, he has at last found the peace that has eluded him for so long.

About this title

From the Author:

When my grandfather passed away, my grandmother told me the family secret about his life in Italy and unwittingly planted the seed for this novel. However, she was unable to provide many details, so I did research and invented the rest. I was fascinated by the bizarre twist in the fate of his father's killer and my grandfather's chance encounter with him near the end of his life, and I imagined how it made him feel, how it helped him transcend the bitter injustice of an unpunished crime, and how it could have restored his faith in God's love and allowed him to die with peace in his heart. It was an ending I couldn't have made up. I wrote the first draft in New Haven after I returned to the States from Montreal, revised it, and sent it to Robert Giroux at FS&G. He was very encouraging, but I put it aside to work as a freelance writer in NYC. The story wouldn't leave me alone, and I returned to it several years later. It was a book that had to be written.

About the Author:

Anthony Maulucci is an Italian American poet, playwright, novelist and painter. He worked in professional theatre and enjoyed a prominent career as a freelance writer before becoming a college professor of writing and literature. In 1989, he founded the Green Tiger Writers private workshops and in 1995 launched an independent press to bring out his first novel, The Discovery of Luminous Being, followed by Adriana's Eyes and Other Stories, The Rosselli Cantata, Dear Dante, 100 Love Sonnets and Anxious Love. He has also published poetry chapbooks and writing guides for both fiction and poetry. Visit www.lorenzopress.com for further information. He holds an M.A. from Wesleyan University and is a recipient of the Rosengarten Award for Fiction (Harvard University) and the Jordan Davidson Poetry Prize (Barry College). He was born in Hartford, Connecticut and has lived in Boston, Montreal, New York City, and currently resides in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1502307049
• ISBN 13: 9781502307040
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 128