“Don Adolfo was my father,” Nino admitted.
“He committed a sin with my mother during the panic of the war. He had already taken his vows and was a priest, so it was a great sin before God. The bishop knew and wanted to punish him, and he decided that Don Daniele"s death was a perfect opportunity for penance. The bishop assigned my father to Altamura, where he would be near my mother, near me, and live every day knowing what he had done. We hardly ever spoke, and he believed he kept his secret from me all these years, but I knew.
“My mother lived out her life in the convent. She never took the vows or wore the habit of a nun. She said her sin made her unworthy. But she made her place in a small storeroom where I lived for the first few years of my life, until it was unseemly for a young b
