Giovanni Rizzo, an esteemed lawyer of the Venetian bar, underwent gender reassignment surgery in 1993 that would give him for the rest of his days the sexual identity that, despite contradictions, he felt his since he was a child.
At forty-eight, with a marriage and three children behind her, the professional success achieved and the fame of Don Giovanni, Giovanna can finally become a woman. Through a progressive approach to the world of Giovanna, Maria Nadotti reconstructs the stages of this "necessary metamorphosis" and introduces "Anch'io", the disturbing text that Giovanna Rizzo writes immediately after the operation.
Maria Nadotti writes about culture and entertainment for numerous American and Italian newspapers, including "Il Sole 24 ore", "l'Unità", "Linus" and "Linea d'ombra". She is the author of "Silence: Death. The U.S.A. in the time of AIDS" (1994). Since 1980 she has lived between Milan and New York and deals with organization and cultural exchanges between Italy and the United States.
Giovanna Rizzo, civil lawyer and from November 1994 ombudsman for the Province of Venice, is at her first narrative test.
This autobiographical story speaks frankly and poetically of the sex change that has made her a well-known and fascinating public figure.
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