 Two such lines, "And it was two wooden beams which made up the cross /and, around it, two bandits with the same voice", may be read as a biblical reference to the two thieves crucified alongside Jesus , but also as an allusion to De Andre's notorious 1979 kidnapping by "Anonima sarda", as the bandits who talked to him were actually two, and undistinguishable.The song is one of De André's least-known