title: The Italian Chronicles of a Rogue Tourist: Volume I: Discovering Calitri (Volume 1)
author:  Paul Monico 
description: Paul Monico is a former career military officer. Following graduation from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1969, he served 24 years first as a Strategic Air Command B-52 aircraft commander and later as a cruise missile and systems development engineer. Following his military service, he was employed by defense contractor, Raytheon Company, as a software requirements engineer until his retirement in 2009. He is married to his high school sweetheart, Mary Ellen (Maria Elena). Together they have three children. When not traveling in Italy, he and his wife spend their time in the state of New Hampshire, where he writes, fishes, and shovels snow.
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  # The Romance Of Giovanni Calvotti
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### David Christie Murray
  
  
  This page formatted 2007 Blackmask Online.
  
  
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  * [CHAPTER I.—IN THE ATTIC.](rogi_split_2.html#1_0_2)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER II.—ON THE SECOND FLOOR.](rogi_split_3.html#1_0_3)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER III.—AT POSILIPO.](rogi_split_4.html#1_0_4)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER IV.—NELLE CARCERI MUNICIPALE](rogi_split_5.html#1_0_5)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER V.—LA TEMPESTA VA CRESCENDO.](rogi_split_6.html#1_0_6)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER VI.—THE END.](rogi_split_7.html#1_0_7)
  
  
  
  
  
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  Produced by David Widger
  
  
  
  
  
  THE ROMANCE OF GIOVANNI CALVOTTI.
  
  
  By David Christie Murray
  
  
  From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories By David Christie Murray In
  
  
  Three Volumes Vol. II.
  
  
  Chatto &Windus, Piccadilly 1882
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### CHAPTER I.—IN THE ATTIC.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  I live in an attic. I am in the immediate neighbourhood of a great
  
  
  tavern and a famous place of amusement. The thoroughfare on which I can
  
  
  look whilst I si