Guccini e Macchiavelli, cantori dell’Appennino dimenticato, giocano con i fantasmi per rendere omaggio allo spirito misterioso e inafferrabile delle loro amate montagne. La frenesia della città sembra all’improvviso lontanissima, i tornanti si snodano in mezzo a una fitta vegetazione, il segnale telefonico si e poi, dietro una curva, ecco una radura dominata da una quercia maestosa e da un’antica casa in pietra. A Maurizio e a Marta sembra che quella casa sia lì ad aspettarli da sempre. A dire il vero Maurizio, da buon scrittore di romanzi, qualche sospetto per le case isolate nel bosco lo nutre, ma l’entusiasmo della moglie vince ogni resistenza. E così i due approdano tra gli Appennini, poco desiderosi di stringere amicizia con i ruvidi abitanti del paese vicino e determinati a godersi il loro incantevole buen retiro . Però non sono dalle profondità della cantina – che i locali chiamano “l’inferno” – emerge un grosso gatto che si considera il vero padrone di casa e che, in virtù del suo pelo nerissimo, accetta l’epiteto di Minosse con felina condiscendenza. Ma non è tutto. Una notte dopo l’altra, a far loro compagnia si susseguono strani ombre fruscianti in giardino, luci che si accendono nel buio, Minosse che gonfia il pelo come se qualcosa lo avesse terrorizzato…
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He is an Italian mystery writer and playwright. He worked also a theatre impresario, actor and playwright. As a writer, his most famous character is Sarti Antonio[1] (surname written first), a Bolognese police detective, characterized by a strong morality but mediocre investigative capabilities; in his tales he is often helped by the sharper mind of Rosas, a smart university student. Sarti's stories have been turned into a television series in 1991, followed by an Italian-German co-production of six films, broadcast in April and May 1994. He was also the protagonist of a comics series published in the Italian magazine Orient Express. More recently, Macchiavelli has written a series of detective novels in collaboration with singer-songwriter Francesco Guccini having a Carabinieri maresciallo, Benedetto Santovito, as the protagonist. Machiavelli's books have been published in France, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Soviet Union, Japan, Romania and other countries.
Francesco Guccini is an Italian singer-songwriter, considered one of the most important Cantautori. During the five decades of his music career he has recorded 16 studio albums and collections, and 6 live albums. He is also a writer, having published autobiographic and noir novels, and a comics artist. Guccini also worked as actor, soundtrack composer, lexicographer and dialectologist. Guccini moved to Pàvana during World War II, then returned to Modena where he spent his teenage years and established his musical career. His debut album, Folk beat n. 1, was released in 1967, but the first success was in 1972 with the album Radici. He was harshly criticised after releasing Stanze di vita quotidiana, and answered to his critics with the song "L'avvelenata". His studio albums production slowed down in the nineties and 2000s, but his live albums continued being successful. His lyrics have been praised for their poetic and literary value and have been used in schools as an example of modern poetry. Guccini has gained the appreciation of critics and fans, who regard him as an iconic figure.[1] He has received several awards for his works; an asteroid, a cactus species and a butterfly subspecies have been named after him. The main instrument in most of his songs is the acoustic guitar.
