Melania Mazzucco

Melania Gaia Mazzucco (born 6 October 1966)[1] is an Italian author.

Mazzucco graduated from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in 1990 and the Sapienza University of Rome with a degree in History of Modern and Contemporary Literature in 1992.

It was directed by Ferzan Özpetek[4] and was entered in the 65th Venice International Film Festival.

[5] In 2008, Mazzucco published the first of two volumes on the Renaissance painter Tintoretto called La lunga attesa dell’angelo which won a Bagutta Prize.

The second volume, Jacomo Tintoretto e i suoi figli: storia di una famiglia veneziana, was published in 2009.