Loriano Macchiavelli is an Italian mystery writer and playwright.

Macchiavelli was born in Vergato

Vergato

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, near Bologna

Bologna

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. He worked also a theatre impresario, actor and playwright.

As a writer, his most famous character is Sarti Antonio (surname written first), a Bolognese

Bologna

Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River. Bologna is a lively and cosmopolitan Italian college city, with spectacular history,...

 police detective, characterized by a strong morality but mediocre investigative capabilities; in his tales he is often helped by the sharper mind of Rosas, a smart university student. Sarti's stories have been turned into a television series in 1991, followed by an Italian-German co-production of six films, broadcast in April and May 1994. He was also the protagonist of a comics series published in the Italian magazine Orient Express.

More recently, Macchiavelli has written a series of detective novels in collaboration with singer-songwriter Francesco Guccini

Francesco Guccini

Francesco Guccini is an Italian singer-songwriter, considered one of the most important Cantautori. During the five decades of his music career he has recorded 16 studio albums and collections, and 6 live albums. He is also a writer, having published autobiographic and noir novels, and a comics...

 having a Carabinieri

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 maresciallo, Benedetto Santovito, as the protagonist.

Machiavelli's books have been published in France

France

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, Germany

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, Portugal

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, Spain

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, Hungary

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, Czechoslovakia

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, Soviet Union

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, Japan

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, Romania

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and other countries.