What happens after " 25 " The Great Sundial?

DESCRIPTION OF MY NEW NOVEL (SEQUEL OF " 25 ")

"De Spira Mirabilis"

What are you talking about?

I needed to complete my hunting path by chasing the memory of friends of that period, and not only! I also needed to get in touch with the truest reality of that period so important for my generation, and not only!

But I also had to maintain that atmosphere of mystery and treasure hunt that the first novel seemed to me to have recreated well. Moreover, many of my readers, not all fortunately, complained about the ending of " 25 "; but how, and where has the Templar Treasure gone? And above all, we are convinced that this Treasure is not exactly what one could have imagined.

De Spira Mirabilis therefore speaks of many things, but basically maintains the characteristics of the previous novel: Friendship, Mystery, history with a capital S and a rather original theory on the Universe demonstrated by a "Machina Universalis" that comes from far, far away (both in Time and Space)!

 

The New Characters

Obviously I can't tell too much about the new characters I have included in De Spira Mirabilis , but I will anticipate some details.

Meanwhile, we have a character that, after describing it in the novel, I later met in reality. What I mean? Just this! I happened to meet a person who was exactly, as the great Camilleri would say, 'na stampa e' na figura, with my character; the same as how I imagined it while writing it. But the most amazing thing is that the physical person I met a few months after finishing the novel is an American, just like the character in the book; crazy isn't it? I can guarantee that this is not the only oddity that has happened to me during and after the writing of the novel. However Alvin, this is the name of the first new character, is a scientist; an astrophysicist and friend of Professor Roberto Goldoni, the mythical Prof. of "25"

Then there is also a couple of journalists (male and female), a little sui generis, who will follow us as shadows in our endeavors to defend the treasure found by the bad guys who, this time, are really bad and are willing to do anything to recover what we have blown under his nose again.

The real surprise, however, is represented by two characters already glimpsed in the first novel but who, in this, have a much more important role: Papà Ettore and Papà Gastone, the "matusas" of the group. Their skill will allow to obtain a great result, absolutely unexpected by everyone.

 

Why this title?

Yeah, why? This is another of those strange facts that happened to me when writing my novels. In general, I decide immediately or almost the title, but this time I was really undecided; there were several that I liked. Having already a clear idea of ​​the plot and the role played by a certain geometric shape in history, I went around the internet a bit to see if De Spira Mirabilis (a phrase attributed to Bernoulli to define the beauty of the logarithmic spiral) was already was used as the title of a book and I came across a website of an Italian artist who dedicated his skills to creating three-dimensional spiral-shaped wooden works. Works of great beauty, I must say. I then contacted, via email, the artist offering him to combine our "skills", but I never received a response. So I proceeded to write the novel convinced that I would keep this title even though I was sorry I didn't have the desired answer; maybe he was abroad for his exhibitions, I thought. In reality, this was not the case. After a few months, at the end of the novel, I received a phone call from a lady who contacted me because she had found an email from me on her husband's e-mail, but the reply was not followed. My initiative and the artist I sent it to immediately came back to me. I thus learned the real reason for the non-response; a few days after my email, her husband had passed away; so said the gentle lady Valeria. I was really very bad about it, I didn't really expect it. At this point I decided to use another logo for the cover of my second novel and I hope that, soon, I will be able to publish it starting perhaps from the e-book.

Of course I have not yet explained the reason for this title and what a logarithmic spiral has to do with the history of a Templar Treasure, but this is the bottom line and you will certainly not extort it from me now, this secret. I'm sorry, but it will be necessary to read the De Spira Mirabilis to know it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WHAT I JUST FINISHED TO WRITE (A Yellow)

Why a Yellow?

Why in Bologna?

But is it just a Yellow?

Well yes, I confess it! I too have entered the strand of Giallo al Ragù , the Bolognese one. The idea of ​​writing at least one mystery in one's "book" career must be in the DNA of the dirty sheet of my city. Maybe, but writing thrillers is difficult; nothing ever comes back to you; if you move a pawn everything gets messed up and instead a yellow is like making houses with trump cards; if you make a wrong move the whole castle falls! But then it's fun because you can easily kill all the obnoxious characters whenever you want; so much you go to jail!

Aside from the jokes, I was interested in making a portrait of the Emilian province of the 70s in which to bring out the other side of the coin. Everyone knows Bologna as a quiet, peaceful and industrious city, but is it really so? No, not at all! The other side of the coin is black, very black and you really can't trust anyone around here. But luckily there are them! Them who? But our detectives (Elementary ... Watson!); the most original and investigative couple after the one formed by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson ; that of Don Alberto and Professor Goldoni.

 

Sir Artur Conan Doyle's yellows always contain a good dose of mystery, they are not pure and simple yellows and I too wanted to follow this archetype that I really like. For this reason, whoever wants to read my first mystery "The Cold Book Enigma" will find bread for his teeth. See you next time!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But what fascinates me is always history , especially when it mixes with the myth and I certainly could not escape the myth of King Arthur and his sword EXCALIBUR. And so the fourth novel also came to fruition, but it still has a provisional title "The Mysterious Sword" . It all started when a literary magazine from the British Library asked for help on the net to interpret the engraving on a medieval sword, found on the shore of an English river in 1825 and that no one had yet managed to decipher. A beautiful challenge which I obviously jumped into, giving an interpretation that brought back to King Richard I of England and which led me to look for a link between this somewhat austere but charismatic king with his legendary predecessor. History is like a Gruyere cheese, perhaps it has more gaps than full and I like very much to try to fill the holes with the imagination and connections that often even historians do not venture to look for. Yes, it's an adventure and, I would say, very funny. Well, this novel is therefore my "true" story of EXCALIBUR that goes from a long journey through time and space starting from the myth of Aeneas to that of Arthur on the road that connects Troy, Sicily, Rome, the Holy Land and the land of the Angles and Saxons. If then, even in this story, we come across a mysterious box, as happened in my first novel, then there are also the ingredients to make an interesting hypothesis of how the history of Europe was built in a period little known as that immediately following the fall of the Western Roman Empire. And here for my visitors a preview of the objects that convinced me that you could write a beautiful story on history with a capital S.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Of course it is good to specify that the characters of the new novel are always my two favorite investigators who, however, this time, will divide because Professor Goldoni will go around with a beautiful English colleague, while Don Alberto will not be able to leave the base of the Parish of Santa Caterina, however giving her always useful support to get to the heart of the problem and, here, the problem will be as big as a boulder; a little special boulder!