"Everyone would like to write a book like this"
SIMONE GAMBACORTA Abruzzo Cultura
"Marella Caracciolo creates a rich and documented, clear and captivating fresco"
SIMONE GAMBACORTA Abruzzo Cultura
"An intense story—not an affair"
STELLA CERVASIO La Repubblica
"Fascinating view of the late 1800s to the early 1900s Italy"
MAURO DEL BIANCO Il mestiere di leggere
"It is not only the story of a short and intense love, but also a portrait of an age and a world"
BitCulturali.it
"Caracciolo's words manage to completely transmit the emotions of this reunion (between Umberto Boccioni and Vittoria Colonna)"
Il Quotidiano
ABOUT THE BOOK
It was in June 1916 that Princess Vittoria Colonna met the Futurist painter Umberto Boccioni. The love affair between them was brief but intense: on August 17th Boccioni died following a fall from his horse. The last letter he received from Vittoria was found in his wallet. This is the story of a Roman princess, a major twentieth-century artist, unbridled passion, the First World War and a tragic accident. A collection of letters hidden for almost a century—all that remains of the relationship between a restless noblewoman and a tormented painter.
Their letters provide the basis for the story Marella Caracciolo Chia tells, not only the story of a great love, but also the portrait of a remote and fascinating world and time.
ABOUT THE BOOK
MARELLA CARACCIOLO CHIA was born in Montreal in 1964 and currently lives in Rome. She studied English Literature at the University of Oxford and obtained a masters degree in English and American Literature at University College London. Among her other works are Il Giardino di Ninfa and Inside Rome.
Translated from the Italian by Howard Curtis
Cover illustration: Frank Weston Benson
ISBN 978 1906548 27 8
192pp
