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The health conditions of Valerio Massimo Manfredi, the writer found lifeless in his apartment on via dei Vascellari in the center of Trastevere, in Rome, by carbon monoxide poisoning. He is currently admitted to a reserved prognosis in the intensive care unit of the Grosseto hospital, according to the latest ASL Tuscany Southeast newsletter. Manfredi was initially hospitalized in San Camillo and later rushed by rescue helicopter to Grosseto from Rome on the afternoon of Thursday, February 11. After entering the emergency room of the hospital in the capital Maremma, he underwent treatment in a hyperbaric chamber and was subsequently admitted to intensive care.
Valerio Massimo Manfredi was in the company of the writer Antonella Prenner, also hospitalized in very serious conditions at the Umberto I hospital in Rome. Philologist and Latinist, Antonella Prenner teaches at the University of Naples Federico II. He has written numerous important studies on ancient literature and in 2018 signed his first novel, Darkness. She was also a councilor for culture in the municipality of Formia. Investigations are being carried out to find out the causes of the accident, for now the predominant hypothesis is that it was a carbon monoxide poisoning caused, perhaps, by a boiler malfunction. Are in progress research police to find out what happened.
Manfredi, 77, from Modena de Castelfranco Emilia, is a multi-faceted scholar: archaeologist, scriptwriter, television presenter, academic. Graduated in classical literature from the University of Bologna, specializing in ancient world topography at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, he has taught at the most prestigious universities: the Sorbonne in Paris and the Bocconi in Milan. Its activity is endless: articles, essays, documentaries, themes and scripts for film and television, with a central passion for the historical novel, translated worldwide with about 15 million copies sold: of the two volumes of “My name is nobody” (2012), in which he narrates the deeds of Ulises, a “Teutoburg” (2016). And especially his trilogy “Alexandros“Which was also purchased by Universal Pictures for a film production, as well as his novel”The Last Legion”A movie was made. It was also adapted for the cinema “Memories of Hadrian”By Marguerite Yourcenar for John Boorman. In 1999 he was voted “Man of the Year” by the American Biographical Institute, Raleigh, North Carolina; in 2003 he was appointed Commander of the Republic by President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi.
Known face of television, passionate popularizer, he hosted the television program “Stargate – Linea di Confine” broadcast on LA7, already in the early 2000s. Then, in 2008, again on La7, he directed the historic in-depth program ” Impero “. In 2011 and 2012 he participated as a collaborator and special correspondent in the broadcast of Rai 3 “And if tomorrow”, conducted in the studio by Alex Zanardi. Since 2016 he has been the host of “Argo, a journey through history”, a series of documentaries produced for the Rai Storia television channel.
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