He had a small but well stocked library. He loved books; books are a remote but reliable friend.

“In realtà il patibolo, quando è lì, drizzato, ha alcunché d'allucinante. Si può…”

“An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignati…”

“Sometimes, if the two old womenwere not asleep, they heard him pacing slowly al…”

“Fex urbis, lex orbis" (The dregs of the city, the law of the earth), from Les M…”