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Valerio Evangelisti

Born

in Bologna, Italy

June 20, 1952

Died

April 18, 2022

Website

http://www.eymerich.com/

Genre

History, Horror, Science Fiction & Fantasy

Influences

New Weird

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Valerio Evangelisti è stato uno dei più importanti scrittori italiani di genere fantasy e horror. Si è laureato in scienze politiche, indirizzo storico-politico, e ha intrapreso una carriera accademica interrotta verso il 1990, alternata all'attività di funzionario del Ministero delle finanze. Dopo avere numerosi saggi, si è dedicato interamente alla narrativa. Nel 1994 è uscito il suo primo romanzo, Nicolas Eymerich, inquisitore, che ha vinto il Premio Urania. Sono seguiti seguiti altri numerosi romanzi, tradotti in più di dieci lingue.

Evangelisti earned his degree in Political Science in 1976 with a historical-political thesis. He was born in Bologna.
Until 1990 his career was mainly academic. He also worked for the Italian Ministero dell Valerio Evangelisti è stato uno dei più importanti scrittori italiani di genere fantasy e horror. Si è laureato in scienze politiche, indirizzo storico-politico, e ha intrapreso una carriera accademica interrotta verso il 1990, alternata all'attività di funzionario del Ministero delle finanze. Dopo avere numerosi saggi, si è dedicato interamente alla narrativa. Nel 1994 è uscito il suo primo romanzo, Nicolas Eymerich, inquisitore, che ha vinto il Premio Urania. Sono seguiti seguiti altri numerosi romanzi, tradotti in più di dieci lingue.

Evangelisti earned his degree in Political Science in 1976 with a historical-political thesis. He was born in Bologna.
Until 1990 his career was mainly academic. He also worked for the Italian Ministero delle Finanze (Treasury Department). His first written works were historical essays, including five books and some forty articles. In 1993 his novel Nicolas Eymerich, inquisitore won the Urania Award, which was established by Urania, Italy’s main science fiction magazine, with the aim of discovering new talent in the field. Urania published other novels of the series in the following years: Le catene di Eymerich ("Eymerich’s Chains", 1995), Il corpo e il sangue di Eymerich ("Eymerich’s Body and Blood", 1996), Il mistero dell'inquisitore Eymerich ("Eymerich’s Mystery", 1996), Cherudek (1997), Picatrix, la scala per l'inferno ("Picatrix, the Stairway to Hell", 1998), Il castello di Eymerich ("Eymerich’s Castle", 2001), Mater terribilis (2002). Most of the last ones were however first published as hardcover.
Nicolas Eymerich is a real historical character, member of the order of the Dominicans and inquisitor in the Spanish Inquisition. He was born in 1320 in Girona, Catalonia, and died in 1399. Evangelisti’s interpretation of his character is a cruel, ruthless, haughty, restless man, who acts mercilessly to protect the Catholic Church against perceived menaces of natural or supernatural origin. At the same time he shows an outstanding intelligence and a deep culture in his actions. In the novels of the series he investigates the mysterious phenomena of Medieval Europe, thus subtly influencing many of the historical events of that epoch; on many occasions the solution of the riddles comes up from stories which are narrated along with the main plot, normally set in the present and in the future. Evangelisti's atmospheres are normally dark, nightmarish, haunting.
Another success of 1999, also translated in several languages, is the Magus trilogy, a romanticized biography of the famous Middle Ages prophecies writer Nostradamus. The three novels, Il presagio ("The Omen"), L’inganno ("The Deceit") and L'abisso ("The Abyss") sold 100,000 copies in Italy.
Evangelisti's novels are greatly appreciated in France (where he won several literary awards), Spain, Germany and Portugal. He is currently the director of the Carmilla magazine. In the last years he has written some works which show his love for heavy metal music, namely the short stories collection Metallo urlante (referring to the French magazine Metal Hurlant) and the novels Black Flag and Antracite: they are set during the American Civil War and feature a new character, Pantera, a palero shaman. One of his latest novels, Noi saremo tutto ("We Shall Be All"), spans several decades of the last century, exploring the life of Eddie Florio, a gangster, against the background of the history of the trade unions and the workers' battles for civil rights.
Mexico is the setting for his next two novels, Il collare di fuoco ("The Fire Collar"), which was published in November 2005 and Il collare spezzato ("The Broken Collar", October 2006). In 2007 La luce di Orione was released, the ninth title in the Eymerich series, followed in 2010 by Rex tremendae maiestatis.
Tortuga, a novel about pirates of the Caribbean, was published in 2008. ...more

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Average rating: 3.77 · 14,494 ratings · 1,199 reviews · 135 distinct works • Similar authors

	Nicolas Eymerich, inquisitore 3.60 avg rating — 1,832 ratings — published 1994 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Le catene di Eymerich 3.78 avg rating — 780 ratings — published 1995 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Il corpo e il sangue di Eymerich 3.79 avg rating — 692 ratings — published 1996 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tortuga 3.51 avg rating — 740 ratings — published 2008 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cherudek 3.95 avg rating — 627 ratings — published 1997 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Il mistero dell'inquisitore Eymerich 3.79 avg rating — 642 ratings — published 1996 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Il castello di Eymerich 3.89 avg rating — 466 ratings — published 2001 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Metallo urlante 3.73 avg rating — 461 ratings — published 1998 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mater Terribilis 3.70 avg rating — 432 ratings — published 2002 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Picatrix. La scala per l'inferno 3.77 avg rating — 399 ratings — published 1998 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Ciclo di Eymerich in odine cronologico (13 books)
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Ciclo dei pirati (3 books)
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Nostradamus (2 books)
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“- Il mare sarebbe Dio?
- No, ma è lo specchio in cui Dio si riflette. Guai a chi infrange il suo ordine e altera il ritratto dell'Onnipotente, composto dalle onde quando sono calme e si succedono regolari. Non può risultarne che una tempesta, attraverso la quale Satana troverà il suo varco.”
― Valerio Evangelisti, Veracruz

tags: diavolo, dio, giudizio, mare, onde, tempesta, vendetta

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