This anthology arose to counter the idea that, in Calabria, history is simply passing through. Hannibal and Spartacus came to Calabria to recruit rebels and renew the fight. Julia, the daughter of Augustus, was exiled to Reggio Calabria and died there thanks to her ex-husband, Emperor Tiberius. Here, we meet Alaric the Warrior-King who sacked Rome, and a monk condemned by the Council of 1215 for being a thinker, prophet and rebel. We will also encounter the Priory of Sion, the brigand "King Marcone," Tommaso Campanella, Alexandre Dumas, King Gioacchino Murat, and Mussolini, as well as the story of the concentration camp of Ferramonti di Tarsia, where no prisoner died a violent death. Proof that, in Calabria, history has definitely not simply passed through.

Born in Rome in 1958, after classical studies he took a degree in Political Science at Rome University. In 1982 he earned a Masters degree in Mass Communication at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles with an international ITT scholarship. Worked at ICET, a telecommunications company where he became CEO and spread their activity to Finland, Ukraine, Latvia and Russia. He has published several books and in 2003 founded the Italy-Latvia association. The Italian edition of Calabria: Warrior and Rebel won three literary awards, and received letters of encouragement from the president of Italy and the queen of Belgium, who is of Calabrian origin.