I was grown up as the third child of straying parents on the Laggo Maggiore.
While my parents were selling beach towels to tourists, me and my siblings were tought the high art of thimblering. Because the revenue was allway good in popular tourist areas we moved to the Canale Grande and after a short stay to the Costa del Sol, where i got addicted to the liquid gold. Pushed by the addiction of alcohol I was searching for a little luck in some of the casinos in this area.
But the trickings from my childhood were just too fixed in my mind and that´s why I got arrested and had my first visit in prison.
During my imprisonment I met the later well known designer Gino Lombardi. It was in the pri