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Guido
About the Author
Guido is the author's first novel. He is a retired General and Electrical Contractor and lives with his wife in the wine country of Napa Valley, California. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and left at age thirty. He traveled the country and eventually landed in San Francisco in the 1970s. By amazing coincidence, he met the author's wife within the first month in San Francisco, and she was also an expatriate from Brooklyn. His first job was in carpentry, then buying and selling refurbished houses, and then he started an electrical contracting business in San Francisco. He moved on to hard wiring computer systems for a telecommunications company in northern and central California until his retirement. He and his wife have two children, a boy and a girl, and two grandchildren.
Early Life and Background
Guido was born in Florence, Tuscany, but under the worst circumstances, he was abandoned to the street as an urchin who has a telltale six fingers on his left hand. This will dog him for the rest of his life. He is rescued by the Sisters of Clare and is taken to a doctor and his wife. He was homeschooled by the doctor's wife, who was a linguist. He quickly accelerated his studies and was considered a genius at a very young age. Consequently, he was fluent in reading and writing in all the Romance languages.
Education and Career
He was accepted into the University of Bologna at the age of sixteen, where he excelled in translating the ancient languages of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew. He finished his studies before his eighteenth birthday and returned to Florence. He was duped into following a man to Spain, which he has unintentionally offended. This starts his trek through Spain, being pursued by the Inquisition, which eventually leads him to London, where he begins his startling career.
