In Nuoro, the Guardia di Finanza has magnified the award of almost 70 thousand euros to the Arkadia publishing house which published Dino Manca's book on Grazia Deledda as part of the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the writer's birth.
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On Thursday morning the Fiamme Gialle arrived early at the Provincial Palace in Piazza Italia and acquired all the documents linked to the initiative on the basis of a complaint reporting the sale of the book. The documents entrusting the work and the books present in the building, 250 copies, were seized. At the same time, the Fiamme Gialle also entered the headquarters of the publishing house in Cagliari, where they seized another 400 copies. The volume, produced in a thousand copies, was supposed to be a work of merit to be circulated only in institutional settings, but it would have departed from the rut for which it had been produced with tens of thousands of euros of public money to go (this would be the hypothesis) to enrich private libraries or even be part of extra-institutional gifts.
The kidnapping
There are suspects. The order of documentary acquisition took place on the valuable works linked to the volume edited and written by Dino Manca, professor of Philology of Italian Literature at the University of Sassari, where he also teaches Italian Linguistics and Literature and Philology in Sardinia. The text entitled “Grazia Deledda. Inside the last secret of the great dream” is published by Arkadia, a publishing house from Cagliari. The search and seizure order took place on the orders of the deputy public prosecutor of Nuoro, Riccardo Belfiori, with the Financial Police who acquired the documentation relating to the creation of the publication in the context of the celebrations for the 150 years of the birth of the Nobel Prize-winning writer for literature. This is a direct assignment, worth 68 thousand euros.
The investigation
The investigation would have started from a complaint regarding the presence of some copies which would also have ended up on sale online, while the volumes created as part of the Deleddian celebrations would all be valuable copies, and therefore not intended for the commercial circuit but exclusively for the institutional one . In fact, a thousand copies had to be printed, limited edition works. Part of it, 250 copies, were in the Province, the others were to be distributed in Cagliari by the publishing house to the institutions: Municipalities of Sardinia, all the libraries, the Regional Council and the University.