A novel centered on Ivo Brandani that traces the social and moral decline of contemporary Italy.

A substantial novel about the decline of contemporary Italy.

A study of the assassination of Giovanni Gentile and the broader political history of wartime Florence around it.

Revisiting wartime Florence through the murder of Giovanni Gentile.

A novel of contemporary Italian history that begins with the thoughts of Ivo Brandani on a business trip to Egypt and moves back through the postwar era, the student movements of the 1960s, and the stagnation of the 2000s. Personal memory meets national distortion, revealing the voids and frustrations hidden inside an era of supposed peace.

The outline of an era emerges from the texture of a life coming apart.