Francesco Schettino's book

Today, in Italy, a very disagreeable event happened.
In Meta di Sorrento, a little village situated on the famous and wonderful Amalfi Coast, Francesco Schettino, the captain of the Costa Concordia that sunk tragically, introduced the book that he wrote.
The book is called “Truths submerged” which contains all the truths about that event.
During the presentation he made dedications and gave out autographs and there were newspaper and television reporters too.
The most horrible thing, in my opinion, is that a person like him has followers, but even more awful was his comment: “I dedicate it to those people who have been hit in their most loved ones, because the verity is due to them more than anyone.”
Perhaps this world teaches that only the worst ones get ahead without problems. I hope, at least, that all the gain from that book will be used to buy himself medications.

Christian, I am not sure about the quote. I'd need to see what the original one was in Italian. "Verity" deos mean "truth" but it is very formal old English and not used often even in the media or educaitonal material. Above I made correction as I see they would sound better. THere are other ways to say things, of course.

Past Tense. When you are talking about something in the recent past, in English you would use the simple Past tense rather than the Present Perfect.

In italian you might say:

Questa mattina sono andato in citta`.

But in English it would be:

This morning I went into the city.

If you say:

This morning I have gone into the city.

It really doesn't make much sense. The times where you might want to use the past perfect tens ein English would be the following:

I have eaten three slices of pizza. (and I am still eating more). But: I ate five slices of pizza. (and now I am done).

So instances where a verb is telling you that you did an action in the past and it may be continuing in the present you use the Past Perfect tense. If something is finished, you use the Past tense.

This morning I bought a cappucino at the corner bar. (done, finished, in the past).

So far this morning, I have bought past and eggs for lunch. (but I am still shopping for gorceries).

Does that make sense?