Stefano Valente, “Il barone dell’alba”

An extraordinary writing, there are no other terms to define Stefano Valente’s style in “The Baron of the Dawn”. It is not the content that strikes and fascinates, it is not the plot of this picaresque and erudite novel, but the cultured, refined yet flowing, visual, narrative expression. There are wonderful pieces, such as the gruesome description of the autodafè, the burning of alleged heretics. I can’t imagine a better…