Culture, the writer from Cesena receives an award in Florence for the novel “Prognosticon Machiavelli”

On Sunday 14 April, in the setting of Mad (Murate Art District) in Florence, the awards ceremony for fiction at the “La Ginestra” literary prize took place. The Prize commission, chaired by university professors Silvio Ramat (University of Padua) and Marino Biondi (University of Florence), awarded the writer Andrea Antonioli 1st place overall for the novel “Prognosticon Machiavelli”, published by Rossini editore (December 2022) for the «weaving and phrasing ability of the writer, scholar and archivist, who knows how to bring the past back to the present, reformulating and scripting it with already proven mastery. When literature places itself in a fruitful alliance with erudition and historiography, the results, as in this case, draw on recognized excellence.”

The novel Prognosticon Machiavelli is based on a five-year research conducted on Ramberto Malatesta, count of Sogliano, an unpublished figure of the Renaissance, philosopher and astrologer, which involved scholars and experts from three universities (Florence, Zurich and Bologna), and on which Antonioli has written a book that has already won numerous literary prizes and has also designed and created an ongoing exhibition, inaugurated at the Malatestiana Library in 2014.
The novel was considered exciting and original, due to its very evocative setting and complex and compelling plot. It is a work of vast scope that ranges between various disciplines, from history to philosophy, from thought to art, from politics to economics, and between various historical eras, in an atmosphere permeated and punctuated by suggestion and mystery. .