Mazzini

That day, a colleague of Mazzini’s notified a state transportation official of the request, and complained to the state official that the NRG Park request had arrived “extremely late to run through typical steps.”

She ended up with over 300 names, a who’s-who of 19th-century icons: composers like Rossini, Liszt and Schumann; novelists like George Sand, Victor Hugo and Ivan Turgenev, her lover; Giuseppe Mazzini and Napoleon III.

Mazzini calls this small country just north of Iran “the kingdom of mud volcanoes.”

She said her husband, 94, hardly ever talked about his time escaping fascists and fighting with the Mazzini brigade in San Leo, on Italy’s eastern coast.

Mazzini is introduced in prison awaiting his date with the hangman and finishing his memoirs, a litany of crime.