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      • Il sorriso di Caterina, la madre di Leonardo
        Historical fiction

        Il sorriso di Caterina, la madre di Leonardo

        by Carlo Vecce

        This is the most astounding book you will ever read, in more ways than one. Presented to the international press at Giunti Editore’s Villa La Loggia on March 14, 2023, Carlo Vecce has written the untold story of the mother of one of the greatest minds of all time: Leonardo da Vinci. This novel is founded on the author’s scientific discoveries, based on documents that show us the true origin of the genius, Leonardo. But it is much more than that. Defined as a ‘docu-fiction’ by Paolo Galluzzi, a Leonardo expert and the former director of the Galileo Museum in Florence, “it gives identities, faces, and passion to characters and elements that are absent from scholarly accounts ... the research is sound.” In his desire to tell the symbolically important story of one woman, Professor Vecce has single-handedly reconfigured our definition of humanity. He has “shown Leonardo to be a universal man who doesn’t belong to one civilization, one country,” (The New York Times, 14/3/23) At the same time, he has clearly shown us what makes us human, and what will allow the spirit of humanity to flourish for centuries to come: our regard for all people, all women, all children, in their desire to live.

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      • Oscura e celeste
        Historical fiction

        Oscura e celeste

        by Marco Malvaldi

        From the bestselling author in Italy comes the only novel featuring Galileo. Florence, 1631. The Plague, the Inquisition. A young nun studies the skies above. Only a scientist can shed light in on the darkness of reason. Florence, 1631. Barely a century has passed since Martin Luther unraveled Christian unity. Europe is a battlefield. The Catholic Church’s fight against heresy is bitter and the plague that descended from the North rages throughout Italy. People are forced to stay inside their houses, doctors guard the streets, the Grand Duke of Tuscany allows only religious processions and blatant acts of penance. Only a grumpy old man, his vision now blurry, dares to defy the Grand Duke’s laws by going out, wearing a leather apron in order to take care of his vineyards. It is Galileo Galilei: the man who by perfecting a Dutch invention, the telescope, has discovered the imperfect surface of the moon, the satellites of Jupiter, and the phases of Venus. He experiments with the motion of the pendulum and on the fall of bodies — and he is now publishing a work that threatens to subvert the place of humankind in the cosmos.

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      • Lunedì mi innamoro
        Fiction

        Lunedì mi innamoro

        by Enrico Fovanna

        A mystery in reverse, about someone who reappears in bizarre circumstances A classic story of friendship, love, and memory that helps us to find the truth Ludovico receives a contact request on Facebook from Febo, his best friend from when they were young, they were always inseparable. The problem is that Febo died twenty years ago. Is this a joke? A person with the same name? To solve the enigma, Ludovico traces their indelible friendship from its roots, starting at the University of Pavia in the early 1980s. Febo is brilliant, cultured, tormented, and a seducer; Ludovico, on the other hand, is a rustic and solitary son of the mountains, in perennial discomfort. They will share the best days of their lives with one another: the nights that seem eternal and the loves that lasted but a moment, the music and the arguments about philosophy, the freedom they conquered and then immediately lost to the world of addiction. This coming of age novel is a moving and entertaining story of a great friendship in young adulthood that can be read in one sitting. It is an ode to time passing and altering us, an enigma that unravels in a surprising ending.

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      • La donna che visse nelle città di mare
        Fiction

        La donna che visse nelle città di mare

        by Marosella di Francia & Daniela Mastrocinque

        This intense and spellbinding family saga begins in Messina, in 1904, at the Andaloro house. On the day of her engagement Costanza discovers that her father has committed suicide. Destroyed by her pain, she is sent by her family to New York where she works in a tailor shop in Little Italy, and where the ambitious musician Pietro Malara courts her without success. Four years later, in 1908, the news of the Messina earthquake reaches New York, and Costanza learns that no one in her family has survived. Oppressed by a sense of guilt that drives her to deny herself any form of happiness, she agrees to marry Pietro and follows him to Naples. The final phase of the novel takes place in Naples, in 2012. Lucilla arrives at the Rione Sanità on the trail of her great-grandmother, Costanza Andaloro, whose existence she discovered via an old letter recently come to light. By reading Costanza’s diary and through the stories of the elderly Zina, Lucilla will be able to reconstruct the complex figure of her great-grandmother who was forced to make painful yet vital choices in span of her Neapolitan life. It was there that she singlehandedly raised her daughter, Rosa, the future grandmother of Lucilla. It was there that Costanza became the woman who lived in cities by the sea. Lucilla will complete the circle of her life in music as well, as the ribbons of creativity that weave through her family are revealed.

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