Matteo Strukul

Matteo Strukul (; 8 September 1973) is an Italian writer and journalist.

Biography Matteo Strukul was born in 1973 in Padova, in the Veneto region of Italy. After a degree in law at the University of Padua, he achieved a PhD in European Contract Law at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice. was translated into English and released in 2014 by Angry Robot as The Ballad of Mila.

Starting from 2016, Strukul published four historical novels set in Florence between the 15th and the 17th century, following the rise of the House of Medici, which all became bestsellers in Italy. The first of them, I Medici: una dinastia al potere, was awarded in 2017 with the Premio Bancarella (also won, in the past, by such authors as Ernest Hemingway, Boris Pasternak and Ken Follett), and was published in English in 2019 as Medici – Ascendancy. The English version of the second novel in the series, Medici – Supremacy, has been announced for the Autumn of 2020.

His work has been translated in over twenty languages among which are English, French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Serbian and Romanian. It has also been optioned for cinema. The three volumes are being published in English as Vlad Dracul, starting from the Summer of 2020.

It has been announced that Strukul will write the script for a videogame entitled Dark Renaissance, set in Italy, to be released in 2021.

Matteo Strukul is also an adjunct professor of interactive storytelling at Link Campus University in Rome, is a member of the Historical Novel Society and writes in the cultural section of the weekly magazine Il Venerdì di Repubblica.

Selected bibliography in English

Novels 2014 – The Ballad of Mila (La ballata di Mila) 2019 – Medici – Ascendancy (I Medici. Una dinastia al potere), Premio Bancarella 2017 2020 – Medici – Supremacy (I Medici. Un uomo al potere)

Comics 2020 – Vlad Dracul (Vlad), art by Andrea Mutti