Samuele Stochino is a historical character, though at the same time legendary.
Samuele Stocchino (with double ācā) is the twice-over legendary character whose story is told in these pages.
What you have read is not the truth. Real names and false names serve the purpose of telling a story while pretending it is true, whereas it is only partly so, or not at all.
My thanks go to Franco Fresi and Lina Aresu, without whose true stories I would not have been able to invent this one.