Heart of Stone (Cuore di Pietra) is a 1996 novel written by the Italian writer Sebastiano Vassalli and published by house Einaudi.
[1] It is the story of a stately house owned by lord Basilio Pignatelli, traced from the birth of the Italian Reign to today.
The novel is set in Novara, a small town surrounded by snowy mountains, where many wars occurred, for example the one against Crucchi.
This story shows us the difficult period of the economic progress by describing the huge house and its owner's life.
The owner was lord Pignatelli, a Neapolitan gentleman, who came to Novara to join the royal army.