Quell’oscuro desiderio. Un profilo del mostro di Firenze
‘As a minimum goal, I set out to show that, beyond the official version, a coherent and completely different reconstruction of the facts is possible. As a maximum goal, I hope to make a contribution to the identification of the murderer of fourteen boys.’Seven murders from 1974 to 1985, fourteen boys slaughtered: this is the toll of the serial killer known as the ‘monster of Florence,’ the protagonist of the most complex and controversial criminal case in Italian history. This book sets out to examine the affair by separating factual data from inferences, chronicle from myth, going back to the sources to draw a profile of the killer that is unpublished yet plausible.
Cristiano Demicheli (Genoa, 1975) is an author of fiction. In 2011 he published with Rizzoli the children’s novel Melasia, a finalist for the Cento and Minerva awards. Winner of the Hypnos prize in 2018, for their types he published the following year the collection Cronache dalla Val Lemuria and collaborated on Strane Visioni 2.
