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'''Monaldi & Sorti''' is the pen name of the Italian married couple writer duo Rita Monaldi and Francesco Sorti.<ref name=Moore08>{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1582334/Vatican-forced-us-out-of-Italy-claim-authors.html| title=Vatican forced us out of Italy, claim authors| author= Malcolm Moore | date= 20 Mar 2008| work=The Telegraph | location=London}}</ref> Rita Monaldi (born 1966) is an Italian journalist and writer. She majored in classical philology and specialized in the history of religions.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/rita-monaldi-and-francesco-sorti/|title=Rita Monaldi and Francesco Sorti}}</ref> Francesco Sorti (born 1964) is an Italian journalist and author. He majored in musicology and specialized in the 17th century. They both live with their two young children in Vienna.
==Works== A series of literary-historical books, with Atto Melani as a central character: * ''Imprimatur''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.birlinn.co.uk/Imprimatur.html|title=Rita Monaldi & Francesco Sorti - "Imprimatur"|publisher=Berlinn|accessdate=26 August 2018}}</ref> * ''Secretum''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.birlinn.co.uk/Secretum-9781846971464.html|title=Rita Monaldi & Francesco Sorti - "Secretum"|publisher=Berlinn|accessdate=26 August 2018}}</ref><ref name=McDowell09>{{cite news|url=http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/interviews/The-Pope-and-the-Sun.5620867.jp|title=The Pope and the Sun King: Rita Monaldi and Francesco Sorti discuss their new novel|last=McDowell|first=Lesley|date=5 September 2009|work=The Scotsman|accessdate=5 December 2010}}</ref> * ''Veritas''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.birlinn.co.uk/Veritas.html|title=Rita Monaldi & Francesco Sorti - "Veritas"|publisher=Berlinn|accessdate=26 August 2018}}</ref> * ''Mysterium''
All the book titles of the series will create the sentence ''Imprimatur secretum, veritas mysterium. Unicum …'' The authors translate this as follows: “Even when a secret is printed, the truth is always a mystery. It remains only…” The authors are keeping secret the titles of the final two volumes. They claim the novel was boycotted in Italy.<ref name=Moore08/><ref name=McDowell09/>
* ''Malaparte. Morte come me'' (2016)<ref>{{cite news |last=Sgattoni |first=Umberto |date=12 July 2016 |url=http://www.ilquotidiano.it/articoli/2016/07/12/125754/il-malaparte-di-rita-monaldi-e-francesco-sorti-incanta-il-pubblico-di-scrittori-sotto-le-stelle |title=Il Malaparte di Rita Monaldi e Francesco Sorti incanta il pubblico di “Scrittori Sotto le Stelle” |newspaper=ilquotidiano.it |language=it |access-date=28 September 2024 }}</ref>
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