page_title: Vasco Ferretti
section_title: Fuoco fatuo. Il lato effimero dell'amore (2014)
hierarchical_section_title: Vasco Ferretti / Works / Fuoco fatuo. Il lato effimero dell'amore (2014)
caption_attribution_description: Moderm monument, Forte dei Marmi, Italy
context_page_description: Vasco Ferretti is an Italian novelist, historian, professor and journalist from Buggiano, Tuscany. He has written books in the fiction genres of historical novels and the Romance novel. His most important books are Kesselring, Vip & Stars, Dante Alighieri e la battaglia di Montecatini, Le stragi naziste sotto la linea gotica 1944: Sant'Anna di Stazzema, Padule di Fucecchio, Marzabotto.
context_section_description: This romance, set in the 60's, is about the story of Alessandro and Denise, two young high school students that meet on the dance floor of a disco in the city of Pistoia. The two immediately fall in love passionately with each other but their passion will make them face the consequences of belonging to different social classes and their different aspirations. As the boy moves to Forte dei Marmi to seek work as a concierge in a luxury hotel, Denise, a rebel soul, decides to escape from the upper class society in order to pursue her desire of success without letting him know about her movements. After all Alessandro doesn't give up and keeps following his love dream, facing rich entrepreneurs, actresses and movie directors. Ferretti shows in this work a snapshot of a period and of the generation of the time. The story is animated by a deep search of the meaning of life and by the never ending search under the surface of existence to get to its most authentic meaning
caption: Night view of Forte Dei Marmi where most of the book is settled
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