14Tazia Perdonna was born in Florence, Italy. No one knew when because Perdonna would never reveal her age.
Her British-born mother worked as a cheese whisperer in Italy, tapping wheels to make sure the highest standards of Italy’s Parmigiano-Reggiano were upheld. And her father was a master clockmaker.
Perdonna’s last years in Italy had been marked by fear known as Strategia della Tensione. During the Years of Lead in the 1960s to 1980s, the communist government of Italy committed assassinations, mass bombings, and street warfare.
Her father rejected capitalism and socialism, finding himself stuck between Italy’s two battling parties. So he joined Terza Pozisione, a political and economic Third Position. Neither red front, nor reaction. The Third Position was nothing and everything, a
