Overview
- Io dico, curated by Roberta Bellesini with Chiara Buratti and published by Gallucci Editore, is slated for November 21 and gathers quotations from Faletti’s novels, songs and monologues, including some previously unpublished lines.
- Bellesini recounts that on November 6, 2002, the day set for the Milan launch of Io uccido, Faletti suffered an ischemic stroke; doctors at Niguarda proposed a time‑sensitive clot‑dissolving therapy that aided his recovery.
- A later MRI for a herniated disc revealed a metastasis linked to lung cancer, after which Faletti pursued advanced treatments in Los Angeles with a Russian physician while the couple rotated short‑term stays in Venice, Santa Monica and Hollywood.
- She recalls their August 2003 wedding on Isola d’Elba following his initial recovery and his return to Asti when therapies ceased to work, noting he kept writing until shortly before his death on July 4, 2014 at 63.
- Bellesini highlights his habit of mapping the plot of Io uccido entirely in his head without notes and his choice to withdraw from friends during illness to spare them seeing him suffer.