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 Last
known member of the DeAngelis family, Giovanni makes his entrance in Santa
Barbara as a patient of Dr. Micah DeAngelis. Suffering from
appendicitis, he is operated in emergency by the one who still ignores
who he is. It is only at his awakening that Giovanni reveals to the one
who operated him that he is his son, whom he abandoned with his mother
even before his birth.
If
Giovanni left his native Italy for the United States after the death of
his mother, it is to meet his father. He immediately puts some distance
with this latter, before realizing that Micah ignored his existence and
that he thus has no reason for hating him. He accepts his invitation to
be lodged in the Ballymoor manor with Micah and Aurora, his half-sister
whom he has also just met.
Very
fast, he reveals to his new family his project : to become a priest, a
vocation on the point to become a reality in the next few weeks in Italy.
Micah, agnostic man of science, does not understand his choice and is
afraid that Giovanni wastes his life. So, when Giovanni gets acquainted
of the young and beautiful Lisa Fenimore, Micah sees the opportunity for
his son to change of way by being interested in the fair sex. But
Giovanni has for only idea to help Lisa, who came to ask him advice by
taking him for a priest already in exercise. He recommends her to
extricate herself from the multiple lies which she maintains towards
Rafe Castillo and to finally opt for honesty.
It
is comforting Lisa that we see Giovanni for the last time. The end of
the show indeed concluded in a too fast way the life of this character
arrived far too much late to have the time to take a real place in the
show's
storylines.
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Enrico
Mutti : Santa
Barbara's
hunky priest,
1992
