Maurizio Zanfanti

[1] The notoriety of Maurizio Zanfanti, who spoke English and Swedish and was born in a poor peasant family, began at the age of 17, after he started working, first as tout bringing in German and Scandinavian tourists and then "artistic director" in a well-known nightclub in Rimini called the Blow Up.

Zanfanti ended up on the pages of the German newspaper Bild, which described him as the "Romeo of Rimini" and defined his qualities as a tireless lover.

[citation needed] During the winter months he moved to the mountain tourist resort of Breuil-Cervinia where he ran a nightclub, which over the years changed its name from Blow Up (like the club in Rimini) to Princesse and finally Garage.

[2] Articles claim that he and the staff at Blow Up recorded an unspecified "pop song" that once reached number 2 in the Swedish charts.

His lover asked for help and the parish priest refused to make the church available for her funeral, they were celebrated in the Rimini cemetery.