Franco Alfano nine months on the following concluding duet and at his death had left behind a whole ream of sketches... Alfano had to reconstruct...according to his best assessment...and with his imagination and magnifying glass" since Puccini's material "had not really been legible." "Alfano's reputation has also suffered [IC:along with Mascagni], understandably, because of his willingness to associate himself closely with Mussolini's Fascist government." Alex Ross, in "The New Yorker", notes that a new ending of "Turandot" composed by Luciano Berio premiered in 2002 is preferred by some critics for making a more satisfactory resolution of Turandot's change of heart, and of
Enrico Alfano returned from prison and found Alfano in control of his former territory. Other sources mention that after the death of Cappuccio, Giuseppe Chirico," 'o Granatiere" (The Grenadier), from the Porta San Gennaro neighbourhood was elected. He was defeated in a "zumpata" by Totonno" 'o Pappagallo", who took over the reign before being defeated by Alfano around the turn of the century. While Luigi Fucci, known as "'O Gassusaro", was the nominal head, the "capintesta", of the Camorra at the time, Alfano was the actual leader and was described as "a kind of president of the confederation." He had his own