Against the backdrop of an “eternal city” crossed by intrigues, passions and power struggles, the characters of the novel “The Pope will die at Christmas” (Giovane Holden editions) by the journalist and writer Marco Corrias move. Tuesday 12 November in Cagliari, in the conference room of the Fondazione di Sardegna, in via San Salvatore da Horta 2 at 18:00, the first stop of the presentation tour.
In addition to the author, the historian Luciano Marrocu and the president of the Osservatorio “Tuttimedia” Franco Siddi will be speaking . The actor Mario Faticoni will read some passages from the book. We are at the end of the 1500s and the Italian political climate is poisoned by the divisions between the various factions of the papal court, for or against what was decided in the Council of Trent. The Inquisition represses every type of dissent and heterodoxy. In this context, the revolt of a group of artists and men of science takes shape, from Florence to Rome, from Naples to Milan, who decide to rebel against the rules of decorum established for painters and sculptors and the Index of Prohibited Books. In Rome, all the protagonists of a complex and compelling story converge.
Marco Corrias was a special correspondent for the weekly Epoca and for “Terra!”, an in-depth program on Tg5. He writes investigative books and novels . He was born in Fluminimaggiore, where he was mayor from 2018 to 2023.