A Private Venus (26 page)
Authors: Giorgio Scerbanenco
Montesi affair: scandal that erupted after the body of an aspiring actress named Wilma Montesi was found on a beach near Rome in 1953. Various members of Rome’s high society were implicated in the subsequent investigations, but the murder was never solved.
Categorical imperative: one of the major concepts of the German philosopher Immanuel Kant.
Prolegomena to any future metaphysics that will be able to present itself as a science
is a work by Kant, published in 1783.
La Rinascente: chain of department stores, with branches in several major Italian cities.
Vilfredo Pareto: Italian sociologist, economist, and philosopher.
Winner of the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière
In the second book of the Milano Quartet, Duca Lamberti investigates a crime whose roots go back to World War II, and a shocking act of betrayal.
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Paperback: 978-1-61219-336-3
Ebook: 978-1-61219-367-0
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