December 4th, 2 p.m. : Authors (husband and wife), Gayle Ridinger and Paolo Pochettino will present their book, "THE SECRET PRICE OF HISTORY."

The Garibaldi-Meucci Museum, 420 Tompkins Avenue, Staten Island NY.

Admission $10/ members $5.

THE SECRET PRICE OF HISTORY is a tale-in the present and the past, about the selfless and the greedy. An enigmatic treasure hunt marred by violence over the centuries is the link between a modern–day detective story concerning Angie Cebrelli, a young American TV weather girl, and the gripping political and social upheaval of the second half of the 1800s as faced by Eleonora Serlupi, a rebellious Roman woman (Angie's ancestor) and her two best friends, Sandor and Goffredo, part of the idealistic generation who fought for liberty and country in the Italian Risorgimento and the American Civil War.

Gayle Ridinger and Paolo Pochettino, the authors, are a husband-and-wife team. Gayle Ridinger was born in the United States in 1957 and graduated from Oberlin College in 1979. She was a newspaper reporter for two years before moving to Milan, Italy in 1981. Since 1987 she has taught English and translation techniques at an Italian University, for the bilingual anthology, ITALIAN POETRY 1950-1990 (Dante University Press, 1996), which she translated and co-edited with Gian Paolo Renello, she received the "National Translation Prize" from the Italian Ministry of Culture in 1997.

Born in Milan, Italy in 1949, Paolo Pochettino studied the Classics in high school, then obtained a degree in Mechanical Engineering. He has worked as a Technical and Production Manager for high-tech plastics companies in Italy and abroad (Netherlands, USA, Germany, France, India). A marathoner who is passionately fond of cinema and history, he has traveled the world, oftentimes in less than ideal conditions.

Available in print and as an e-book:
The Secret Price of History: Searching for the Treasure behind Alexander's Medallion
Link: http://www.amazon.com/The-Secret-Price-History-Alexanders-ebook/dp/B00KR0Z5OY