Background
She was born in Milan, where she earned a degree in History of Art Criticism.
She was born in Milan, where she earned a degree in History of Art Criticism.
The Emperor’s Manuscript is her last novel and is to be released in September 2008. Montaldi"s stories take place in the mid-13th century and move from the castles in Val Doctorate"Aosta to the streets of Milan, from the woods of Lombard county to the Mark of Treviso. The adventures of aristocrats, commoners, monks, heretics, merchants, soldiers, witches and inquisitors are woven together in the narrative.
The thread connecting it all is the Benedictine friar Matthew, who, even in the latest novel, finds himself involved in dramatic events set about by a mysterious illuminated manuscript.
Many seem to desperately cover the codex, and this creates a series of intrigues that ends up involving the highest dignitaries of the civil and religious powers of the time. The author lives and works in Milan.