Florence - Novel - Stefania Auci
historical beef set between Chianti and Florence shaken by the winds of the First World War, Florence is a great feuilleton that combines great themes such as passion, war and ideals with a historical and environmental reconstruction of great impact.
Ludovico Aldisi, an ambitious journalist of the "Nazione", known for his open interventionist sympathies, sees in the newly declared war an opportunity for prestige and social ascent. He is a charming man, who has as his lover Claudia, the beautiful wife of a rich lawyer, from whom he does not hesitate to ask for money and favors. His existence undergoes a turnaround when, during a pacifist demonstration, he sees Dante, a friend and college friend. On that occasion he also met Irene, a French girl, daughter of his former university professor. The young woman impresses him with her intellectual verve and freedom of thought, as well as her pacifist faith. The friendship between the two does not take root immediately. The man, in fact, goes to the Marne as a war correspondent and here he joins a Scottish battalion. He will be familiar with the horror of battles, and these events will profoundly change him. On his return, Ludovico is no longer the unscrupulous journalist he was when he left, but a confused and tormented man. While the relationship with Claudia begins to fall apart, the only one to give him a hand is Dante, who invites him to his estate in Chianti, Torricella. There is also Irene. A bond is created between the two that will help Ludovico to clarify within himself and to understand what he has really lost, just when the threatening shadows of the First World War begin to stretch over Florence and Italy as well.
Stefania Auci is a writer and support teacher. Among her books we remember: Florence (Baldini + Castoldi, 2015) and The bad school. In 2019 I leoni di Sicilia is released for the North. The Florio saga. To write it, the author conducted numerous researches: she sifted through the libraries, read all the journalistic reports of the time, explored the possessions of the Florio family and meticulously collected the threads of history that unravel between clothes, songs, letters, bottles, jewels, boats, statues. It is a cultural reality that has left its mark not only in Sicily. This first volume is followed in 2021 by The Winter of the Lions (North). In 2021 you won the La Baccante literary prize.
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