Riccardo Maffey: 4 books

Between history and fiction, in the struggle for Ciano's life and his diaries, an indictment of Hitler and Ribbentrop's treacheries, is also the son of a cockney and a Rome noblewoman. Carlo Rufus Williams joins the Resistance after the King and his generals abandon Rome to the Germans....

Rome in 1959, just before the release of Fellini’s La dolce vita: the nobles of old and the arrivistes, the snobs and the beautiful people, the cinema and the bigots, the pseudo-intellectuals and the artists. And Giada Rovi-Sanlupi, the moody, unconventional daughter of a papal aristocrat. And Germaine...

Everybody comes up with a different version of their own biography, and the weight of the uncertainties makes it tough for Rudy, a British lawyer of mixed Italo-Somali origin, to choose between starting a new life with Paola, the girl who showed up at his office for advice as a victim of brutal harassment,...

An Anglo-Italian reporter is on the news in the Roman summer, but cannot write the story he's unearthed... and in the attempt at patching up his marriage, he ends up enacting the drama of his life A palmist had dubbed him "a powerful car on the road at night without headlights". Reminding himself of that metaphor, he takes the Via del Mare, driving against the traffic at high speed.