


Books in series

Le piste dell'attentato
1974

Ombre sotto i portici
1976

Sarti Antonio un diavolo per capello
1980

Sarti Antonio
rapiti si nasce
1985

L'archivista
1981

Stop per Sarti Antonio
1987

Sarti Antonio e la ballata per chitarra e coltello
1994

Una bionda di troppo per Sarti Antonio
2003

Sarti Antonio e l'assassino
2004

Sarti Antonio fra gente perbene
Racconti vol. I
2005

Sarti Antonio e i 47 colpi
Racconti vol. II
2006

Sarti Antonio e la via dell'inferno
Racconti vol. III
2007

Sarti Antonio. Di nero si muore
Racconti vol. IV
2008

Delitti di gente qualunque
2009

L'ironia della scimmia
2012
Authors

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.