About Franco Cuomo
Lived 1938 – 2007 (aged 69). Franco Cuomo was an Italian journalist, writer, screenwriter, playwright and theatre critic.
Franco Cuomo (22 April 1938, in Naples – 23 July 2007, in Rome) was an Italian journalist and writer.
Best known for his historical novels set in the Middle Ages, he was short-listed twice for the Strega Award (the most prestigious literary prize in Italy), first with Gunther d'Amalfi, cavaliere templare (Gunter D'Amalfi, Knight Templar) in 1990 and then Il Codice Macbeth in 1997.
According to Rocco Capozzi, Gunther d'Amalfis publication, shortly after Foucault's Pendulum, "started a trend of neo-historical novels featuring symbols and secret codes linked to Templars, Rosicrucians, Cathars and Masons" in Italy.
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Who was Franco Cuomo?
Italian writer
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Franco Cuomo was born on 22 April 1938 in Naples.
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Franco Cuomo died on 23 July 2007 in Rome.
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Franco Cuomo was a journalist, writer, screenwriter, playwright and theatre critic.
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Franco Cuomo was Italian.
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