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Forsaken at an early age by his mother and neglected by his father, Virgilio spent his childhood and adolescence with his paternal great parents or, because of his violence, in children’s homes that, far from curing this violence, did not fail to increase it. His personality is fashioned, though in different ways, by these two kinds of parental absences. His relations with women are short lived and always money driven, whereas he entertains strong masculine friendships with men. His life is interspersed with violent and delirious episodes and yet he endures, partially at least: “Sed fluctuat nec mergitur.”