The trilogy of life is a threefold praise: to life (Il Progetto), to eros (La Crociera) and to death (La Condanna). Each novel has its narrative autonomy, while also referring the reader to the other two works. Three emblematic stories and three emblematic characters of the third millennium: Barbara Stein, Pascal Lambert and Milton Crois.
Milton, a twenty-eight-year-old commercial artist, in the year 2096 becomes convicted by a strange court to live forever. Incredulous first and then more and more aware of the extraordinary privilege Milton indulges, in a futuristic scenario, in a life devoted to love and beauty of nature and art. Time passes and when his wife and friends die, he is then forced to flee and constantly create new relationships and friendships. Anxiety is lurking. Like a snail Milton drags behind him the increasingly cumbersome burden of memories. He's on the verge of insanity. It seems increasingly clearer that the ruling was not an undeserved prize, but a true conviction. His life, eternal due to a decree, misses the essence of existence which is the fear of death. Listening to Mozart's Requiem Mass accelerates the crisis: with the help of a providential and singular guardian angel, he decides to ask the court to revoke the sentence. This will be granted to Milton Crois after he performs a praise of death, understood as an intrinsic moment of life.
The recovery of the sense of death, and not its continued exorcism, is a necessary step for the salvation of the man of the third millennium and for the discovery of hope in the transcendent.
Cover design: by Fulvia De Vito, designer.
Ralph Lorbeer is a German translation of the name Raffaele Lauro.
I romanzi
Roma a due piazze
Roma a due piazze is not a novel in the usual meaning of the term. It brings to the reader the unrestricted attention to the plot and to the situations of its characters. The narrative structure is based on a dialogue between two women of our times: Ida and Giulia, well-mannered and with excellent education (one of them is an art critic, and [..] Read More »Metropolitania
A collection of short stories that portray events and characters drawn by the Author from the metropolitan universe of Rome. The metropolitan stories recover the ancient and refined taste of "telling the story of life and people." The most hidden secrets of everyday life come to light: the fragility of feelings, the game of [..] Read More »Il Sogno di Pedro
The art of speaking of art by drawing a historical fresco; and at the same time the art of embossing history with force, of making it emerge from the business of those exceptional men, the artists. This is what happens along the unravelling of the pages of this novel built by Lauro stone by stone, brush stroke by brush stroke, just like [..] Read More »Il Progetto
The trilogy of life is a threefold praise: to life (Il Progetto), to eros (La Crociera) and to death (La Condanna). Each novel has its narrative autonomy, while also referring the reader to the other two works. Three emblematic stories and three emblematic characters of the third millennium: Barbara Stein, Pascal Lambert and Milton [..] Read More »La crociera
The trilogy of life is a threefold praise: to life (Il Progetto), to eros (La Crociera) and to death (La Condanna). Each novel has its narrative autonomy, while also referring the reader to the other two works. Three emblematic stories and three emblematic characters of the third millennium: Barbara Stein, Pascal Lambert and Milton [..] Read More »La condanna
The trilogy of life is a threefold praise: to life (Il Progetto), to eros (La Crociera) and to death (La Condanna). Each novel has its narrative autonomy, while also referring the reader to the other two works. Three emblematic stories and three emblematic characters of the third millennium: Barbara Stein, Pascal Lambert and Milton [..] Read More »Mutus
Mutus is the nickname of an elderly innocent convict, who in his protest against society chooses the path of complete silence. He communicates only with his fantastic inner world. After more than twenty years in prison spent in Pianosa, he is transferred to the island of Gorgona, where he manages to live moments of serenity in relationship [..] Read More »Quel film mai girato (Volume I)
Fictionalized version of the script (part one) for a film never made due to the sudden death of the protagonist, Angela, the Author’s mother. Gianluigi Rondi: "This story, as it is written, has a depth of analysis that a film could never have. You would lose the monumental figure of the protagonist. You would lose the scent of that [..] Read More »Quel film mai girato (Volume II)
Fictionalized version of the script (part two) for a film never made due to the sudden death of the protagonist, Angela, the Author’s mother. Vincenzo Scotti: "This novel is a great political essay, right in the highest meaning of politics as a great collective adventure, as a choral man's response to the challenges of time, [..] Read More »Cossiga Suite
The novel, in English and Italian, takes its title from the hotel suite dedicated by Author's brother, Nello Lauro, director of the Grand Hôtel Splendide Royal in Lugano, to his friend Francesco Cossiga. It describes the extraordinary life of Nello, who died prematurely in 2008, with his passion for painting and his international [..] Read More »Sorrento The Romance - Il conflitto, nel secolo XVI, tra Cristianesimo e Islam
In the historical setting of the sixteenth century in Europe, bloodied by religious wars and by the clash between Christianity and Islam on the Mediterranean Sea, with its epicenter in the naval battle of Lepanto (1571), develops a human, extraordinary and tormented story of the protagonist, Marino Correale: from his birth in a patrician [..] Read More »Caruso The Song - Lucio Dalla e Sorrento
This novel is a novelty, with unprecedented revelations, compared to other biographies of Lucio Dalla. It portrays the "dalliana" poetic, in its inner evolution, related to the special link that the artist has had for fifty years with Sorrento, which he described as "real corner of my soul", inspiring him his immortal song [..] Read More »Lucio Dalla e San Martino Valle Caudina - Negli occhi e nel cuore
This book dedicated by the Author to Lucio Dalla and to his historical bond with San Martino Valle Caudia, will be launched in 2016 on the occasion of 4th anniversary of the passing of the great artist from Bologna (1st March 2012 - 1st March 2016), in Italian as well as in English. The work is structured into two dialogues. The first one, [..] Read More »
[..] IL PALAZZO MARZIALE DI SORRENTO
“Palazzo Marziale of Sorrento”, published by GoldenGate Edizioni, is an elegant publication (136 pages), in two versions, Italian and English, divided into three parts (The legend - The history - The art), and features a wonderful photographic material in colour, which presents the halls of the palace captured by photographer [..] Read More »DANCE THE LOVE - Una Stella a Vico Equense
“Dance The Love - A Star in Vico Equense”, published by GoldenGate Edizioni, dedicated to an extraordinary human and artistic story of the Russian dancer, Violetta Elvin, completes “The Sorrentine Trilogy” following the success of “Sorrento The Romance” (2013) and “Caruso The Song - Lucio Dalla and [..] Read More »DANCE THE LOVE - Una stella a Vico Equense. Le interviste - Le testimonianze
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The book, written by Raffaele Lauro with Riccardo Piroddi, gathers, in chronological order, in English version, preceded by Italian version, the interviews released by the author of “Dance The Love - A Star in Vico Equense”, the third and latest novel of “The Sorrentine Trilogy” and the testimonies of the lecturers at [..] Read More »Uno Straccione un Clown
LUCIO DALLA. AN INTERNATIONAL WEB PEMIÈRE OF A SONG DEDICATED BY WRITER RAFFAELE LAURO TO LUCIO DALLA ON THE OCCASION OF THE 5TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PASSING OF THE GREAT ARTIST FROM BOLOGNA (1st MARCH, 1st, 2012/MARCH, 1st, 2017). VIDEO AVAILABLE ON YOU TUBE
On the occasion of the 5th anniversary of the passing of Lucio Dalla (March, [..] Read More »
[..] Don Alfonso 1890 - INTERVIEWS&CONVERSATIONS
This eBook, in English and in Italian, collects eleven interviews, given by writer Raffaele Lauro on the content of his new novel, “Don Alfonso 1890 - Salvatore Di Giacomo and Sant’Agata sui Due Gol ”. The book, dedicated to the human, professional and entrepreneurial epic of Don Alfonso Costanzo Iaccarino (1872-1952) and to [..] Read More »L’Universo delle Fragranze - L’epopea artistica di un maestro profumiere: Maurizio Cerizza
In questo romanzo biografico, pubblicato nell’aprile 2019, lo scrittore tratteggia magistralmente la figura di un creativo per eccellenza, il grande maestro profumiere Maurizio Cerizza, e la sua visione dell’uomo nel rapporto con la natura e con la bellezza, sconfinante con le espressioni più alte dello spirito umano: il [..] Read More »GRETA GARBO. IL MISTERO. L’ALTRA GRETA. L’ELOGIO DELLA SOLITUDINE. IL NUOVO ROMANZO BIOGRAFICO DI RAFFAELE LAURO IN USCITA NEL 2021
Il nuovo romanzo di Raffaele Lauro (www.raffaelelauro.it), dedicato a Greta Garbo, come donna e non come diva hollywoodiana, uscirà nell’estate 2021, per la Golden Gate Edizioni.
LA TRAMA DELL’OPERA
Nel 1942, a soli trentasei anni, nel fulgore della sua bellezza fisica, della maturità artistica e del successo [..] Read More »The rights to all novels are held by Raffaele Lauro.
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"Paradossalmente le ultime vicende parlamentari sulla delega fiscale e il voto, per un soffio, sul catasto, stanno testimoniando come la complicata emergenza della guerra in Ucraina, piena di [..]