Blog Tour! The Nine Lives of Tito d ’ Amelia By Ettore Farrattini Pojani
Italian Literature / Historical
Fiction
Publisher: Bayou City Press
Pages: 326
Publication Date:
October 11, 2024
SYNOPSIS
This is the first (and only) English
-
language version of an award
-
winning Italian novel, The Nine Lives of Tito
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d
’
Amelia. Nine Lives is a love story about a cat, a family, and
an
Italian town.
Mixing fiction with fact, Nine
Lives tells the story
of the town of Amelia, Italy, throughout the 32
centuries of its history. In fact, Amelia is considered the first organized city of
central Italy, being four centuries older than Rome. The author uses the
multiple lives of a cat named Tito as the way to sp
an the
centuries.
Author Ettore Farrattini Pojani is the
heir of the Farrattini dyn
asty, a centuries
-
old family in Umbria whose family
palazzo is in Amelia, north of Rome. Tito
’
s first life occurs in pre
-
historic
Umbria, and his ninth is in the future. Tito
’
s mission though all nine of his lives
is to help the town and the family to succ
eed.
A changing cast of characters traces the Farrattini line though the
centuries,
with Tito joining up with a Farrattini in each generation. Using his
feline wiles, Tito bends humans to his will, helping them through many
challenges from drought to wars to lovelorn marriages to selfish politicization
of joint crises.
In this highly imaginative novel, the
author mixes fictional lives with non
-
fictional informatio
n about historical
figures as well as the Farrattini family and the town of Amelia. Readers are
left wondering about details, such as what is fiction and what is fact. The last
chapter will evoke surprise, though a clue that the surprise is coming is
conta
ined in the very first chapter. Originally published in Italy in 2022, this
first English
-
language translation is published by Bayou City Press in Houston,
Texas, and includes additional drawings, maps, lists of characters, a listing of
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foreign words and s
pecial terms, and notes on sources.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
This, his
second book, was published in Italy in 2022 and has won numerous awards.
Prior to focusin
g on writing, Ettore studied art restoration and specialized in
furniture restoration. For almost 20 years he had a workshop in Rome in
which hundreds of valuable, unique pieces were brought back to their
splendor thanks to his dedication and expertise. In
2001 he transformed the
family palazzo into a hotel de charme, which he personally ran for 15
years until it was damaged by the 2016
earthquake.
A dedicated traveler,
Ettore is fluent in French and English besides his native
Italian.
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