← the founders library

Il falco

Sveva Casati Modignani

Book content checked: . What this means

Buy a copy
Amazon USAmazon UKAmazon DE

These are Amazon affiliate links. I may earn a commission if you buy through them, at no extra cost to you. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Summary

Giulietta Brenna has built a full life after her husband’s death, but she remains troubled by the memory of her first love. Rocco Di Falco, now a successful entrepreneur whose face appears in the news, betrayed her many years earlier. The novel brings their past relationship into conflict with the lives they have since made.

Casati Modignani identifies Leonardo Del Vecchio as the inspiration for Rocco while explaining that she invented and changed much of the story. The work is fiction, not a factual biography of the Luxottica founder. This registry uses Sperling & Kupfer’s 2021 Italian paperback; it does not identify any personal copy owned or read by Del Vecchio.

  • SourceSperling & Kupfer — Il falco · Public publisher description; title/byline and edition panel: 2021 paperback, ISBN9788855441001. Public curl retrieved full original page; web reader returned cache miss.
  • SourceSimonetta Sciandivasci — original author interview, 3July2022 · Questions Quando ha conosciuto Del Vecchio? and E che hanno letto il suo libro: author identifies fictional inspiration and explains substantial invention; no direct founder endorsement.

Why read it Our view

Compare the public story of a successful entrepreneur with the private memories held by someone close to him. Use the fictional conflict to ask what professional success leaves unresolved in personal relationships; check historical facts about Del Vecchio against separate records.

Written about

  • Leonardo Del VecchioFictional character inspiration
    Casati Modignani identifies Del Vecchio as the model for Rocco Di Falco and explains that she invented and changed much of the story. This is a novel, not a factual biography, a founder endorsement or a first-person reading statement.
    Source