THE STONES OF ROME (ePub)

EUGENIO GIOVENARDI (84) is a native of Casca, Rio Grande do Sul State (Brazil) and currently resides in Brasilia with his wife, Finish journalist and translator, Hilkka Mäki. He holds degrees in Philosophy, Theology and Sociology and is the author of 20 books. When he was 24 years old, he was ordained as a Catholic priest in the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin (an offshoot of the Franciscans) and served as priest for seven years. When he was working on his doctorate in Sociology at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1968, he withdrew from the Religious Order and the Catholic church and became an apostate libertarian and agnostic. Subsequently, he spent thirty years supporting rural cooperatives and promoting the recuperation of biomes threatened with desertification.
During his work on the recovery of degraded areas, he conducted extensive research on the processes of cooperation and competition between fauna and flora in the recovery of water sources. His methodology of suggested appropriate action is detailed in a booklet entitled Ecossociologia (Ecossociology). His first novel, The Forbidden Man was published in 1997 and translated into Spanish, English and Finnish. His second novel, In the name of blood (translated into Finnish) won the 2003 Azorean Prize for Literature, in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul State (Brazil). The author and his wife have one daughter, Aino Alexandra and two granddaughters, Luiza and Laura.

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