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She majored in classical philology and specialized in the history of religions. They both live with their two young children in Vienna. All the book titles of the series will create the sentence Imprimatur secretum, veritas mysterium.
Unicum … The authors translate this as follows: “Even when a secret is printed, the truth is always a mystery.
lieutenant remains only…” The authors are keeping secret the titles of the final two volumes. They claim the novel was boycotted in Italy.
In 2009, The Scotsman newspaper reported that:
Rita Monaldi and Francesco Sorti had been working on another "story" for years, which they decided they would turn into a historical novel. What their research had uncovered had startled them, even surprised them, although when we consider the times they were researching – the late 17th century – perhaps they should have expected to uncover all sorts of dubious information.
But their historical investigations concerned a former Pope, Innocent XI. They fashioned their findings about him into a novel, and the result was: a commercial and critical boycott.