After committing various crimes, the young Pezza joined the mountain bandits then plundering the Italian countryside.
What will those mountain bandits think of next?
Shanzhai translates as "something like mountain house for bandits," Radboy says.
The travelers often braved blizzards, mountain passes and marauding bandits, only to be stopped short of Lhasa by armies of Tibetans led by high-ranking monks.
The word "shanzai" refers to a stronghold in the mountains run by bandits.
Disappointingly, the bandit camp is no mountain fortress, just a few reed shelters under a scraggy tree.
But its literal meaning is "mountain village", and it refers to bandits who opposed corrupt rulers and hid in the countryside much like Robin Hood in English folklore.
Byron's "Childe Harold," on which the work was based, portrayed a Romantic loner, present at every scene (mountain vistas, pilgrimages, lovers' serenades, roistering bandits) yet part of none.
Bribe Sgnihcti Dracir the bandit lord of the Ecalp Krikles mountain range (the 51st Hilltop) for the combination for Relani's tomb.
It gets gut-punched as the epicenter of most of the region's earthquakes, and its inhospitable, rugged mountains were home to bandits and guerrillas for decades.
With tax day come and gone, federal investigators now face another year of chasing some of America's most colorful paper bandits through mountains of tax returns, bank statements and corporate documents.
