“Il mormorio del mare” di Valerio Villoresi

Participation in the event is free. Registrations at this form.

Loves, intrigues, adventures, mysteries, dreams, passions in a spy story, raw and true, of the 19th century. A story of dukes, marquises and countesses, heretics, prelates, assassins, great wealth, ferocious poverty and hidden treasures. And the legend of an engineer, Eugenio Villoresi, ‘zuccone’ (a big head) loyal to the precepts of Saint Paul, and ‘his’ canal, opposed by the strong powers but providential for the people of the Po Valley. This novel reveals, 140 years later, the background of the ransom of the ‘papal nobility’ over the “caldarrostai” of the North’ through the use of ‘illicit’ capital saved by order of Pope Pio IX from the confiscation measures of the ‘manomorta’.

Valerio Villoresi talks with the actress Roberta Turconi. The event will be held in Italian and is open to the public while places are available.