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A talk with Maurizio de Giovanni and Paolo Terraciano
To date, nine novels in the Inspector Ricciardi series written by Maurizio de Giovanni have been turned into graphic novels: Il senso del dolore, La condanna del sangue, Il posto di ognuno, Il giorno dei morti, Per mano mia, Vipera, In fondo al tuo cuore, Anime di vetro, Serenata senza nome, Rondini d’inverno, and Il purgatorio dell’angelo. And Il pianto dell’alba is on the way. These are on top of five collections of short stories already published: Dieci centesimi, Quando si dice il destino, Il viaggio di una rosa, Un caso senza importanza and Canzone per Livia. All these stories are set in Naples in the 1930s.
Paolo Terraciano landed his first job in 1998, thanks to the Scuola italiana di Comix, helping to turn the works of Eduardo De Filippo into graphic novels. He next moved to television and became a dialogue writer for the program Un posto al sole. From joining the writing team for the Neapolitan soap opera, he became head writer in 2002. In parallel, among other things, he took part in creating the daily Andata e Ritorno show on Raidue and created the spin-off Un posto al sole d’estate, which would run for four seasons. As for comics, he scripted a special episode of Lazarus Ledd in 2006. Today, with Nero Napoletano, Terraciano has gone back to his first love.
