Storia di Federigo Bobini d'Arezzo detto Gnicche

Federigo Bobini said "Gnicche" (1845 -1871) was an Italian brigand born into a humble and honest family. He had since adolescence a difficult character being inclined to easy money and violence. The first crime Gnicche committed was a theft of money in 1864 against a priest. After several convictions and released and / or escaped from prison, he committed the first murder in 1869. Since then his misdeeds were very bloody, until a policeman fired and hit him when he was twenty-six years old, After his death, the Gnicche legend began to hover throughout Valdichiana and Aretino. Numerous local poets and singers have narrated the exploits, often adapting them to that voice that wanted him as a hero, defender of the weak, which, a little 'like Robin Hood, "stealing from the rich and give to the poor." Printed in Florence.

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