Those who thought the piracy phenomenon or exceeded more than anything else, a fruit of the imagination of creative writers should think again: in 2010 53 ships were seized well and 1181 are even stati i marinai catturati. Le zone più pericolose restano le acque al largo della Somalia e il canale del Mozambico. Ma sono gli Stretti dell’Indonesia a detenere il primato delle rapine a mano armata: nel solo anno appena concluso, sono state trenta le navi abbordate, nove gli attentati sventati, mentre un vascello è stato dirottato.
Insomma, siamo al ritorno di Sandokan!
E giustamente! Cade, infatti, quest’anno il centenario della scomparsa di Emilio Salgari che - “seguendo il rituale malese”, come scrissero i cronisti dell’epoca - si diede la morte il 25 aprile 1911.
Il prolifico e fantasioso scrittore era nato a Verona il 21 agosto del 1862 da una famiglia di piccoli commercianti. He followed courses at the Royal Technical Institute and Boat "P. Sarpi" in Venice, but never complete their studies.
Salgari Emilio loved to tell that he felt "emotions are not common and not understandable for someone who is sitting comfortably at home. After sailing on a dump called Italy, I traveled a lot, reaching the Bering Strait. I have seen the world a mountain of tobacco smoking. On a trip I spent six months at sea, with only one stop in Ceylon, so riddled by rodents.
In fact, the experience of seafaring Salgari only a few weeks in the Adriatic aboard the "One Italy" of which he was just a passenger, maybe not too pleased. Psychiatrists diagnosed him mythomania resulted in paranoia: identifies herself to the point in his work to tell your doctor that he contracted the fever in India, or to recommend to their children, walks in the hills of Turin, to ensure that behind the bushes there were no tigers hidden. Extraordinary, then his signature in his letters to his girlfriend: "Your wild Malaysian.
This "fearless scorritore of all the oceans" (G. Arpino) was in fact a careful reader authentic examples of travel and an extraordinary scholar maps. Sandakan is the name of a Far Eastern city of Malaysian Borneo, and Labuan is an island (now off-shore financial center) off the same region. The question remains on Montpracen, the den of the tigers of Sandokan. But the maps of the late '800 reported this small island on the east coast of Sabah (then disappeared, swept away by the power of the ocean or for a more scientific card processing): This again confirms the methodical study of the prolific writer.
Struck by the illness of his wife and in perpetual economic hardship, Emilio Salgari commits suicide April 25, 1911. Among others, will address a letter to his publishers: "to you who have enriched la mia pelle mantenendo me e la mia famiglia in una continua semi-miseria od anche più, chiedo solo che, per compenso dei guadagni che io vi ho dato, pensiate ai miei funerali. Vi saluto spezzando la penna".
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