Roberto Saviano (Naples, 1979) wanted to write a love novel. But when he discovered the story of Rossella Casini, a young woman raped, murdered, and dismembered by the family of her boyfriend, Francesco Frisina, heir to a 'Ndrangheta clan, he began an investigation that brought to light one of the cruelest crimes perpetrated by the Calabrian mafia. My love does not die (Ara Llibres) is the result of five years of work. A book with which the author of Gomorrah (2006) tries to do justice to a forgotten victim of the mafia, while continuing to fight against his own demons. A battle of which he confesses to being increasingly tired. Saviano meets ARA at the Cervantes Institute in Rome. The Italian journalist seems especially dejected, convinced that he has sacrificed his life in vain. While abroad he is recognized as a brave writer, in Italy there are those who reproach him for having diminished or tarnished the country's image by denouncing the relationships between power and organized crime. Saviano has lived under police protection for 20 years after being threatened with death by the Casalesi clan, one of the most bloodthirsty in the Camorra. He was 26 years old, almost the same age as Rossella Casini when she was brutally murdered.

The Court of Appeal of Rome has confirmed this Monday the convictions of one of the bosses of the Camorra –the Neapolitan mafia–, Francesco Bidognetti, and his lawyer, Michele Santonastaso, for the threats made in 2008 against the writer Roberto Saviano and against Rosaria Capacchione, a journalist for the newspaper The Morning of Naples. These threats changed the life of the author of Gomorrah, who has since lived with a bodyguard.