But Mele could not be the Monster of Florence: he had been in prison at ... Chief Inspector Rinaldo Pazzi in Thomas Harris’s novel Hannibal. Harris had followed the case while writing the ...

When the American crime novelist found out those cases remained unsolved, he shelved the novel and obsessively began tracking down the "Monster of Florence." With Mario Spezi, the Gauloise-smoking ...

In the present, Hannibal and Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier (Gillian Anderson) are waltzing at a black tie affair in Florence, where they now call home. He is now going by the name of Dr. Fell ...

"Il Monstro," as the locals called him, served as one of the inspirations for Hannibal Lechter. Preston joined forces with journalist Mario Spezi, who had covered The Monster of Florence murders ...

Before long, the media were dubbing the killer 'The Monster of Florence', or 'Il Mostro Di Firenze.' Thomas Harris, the author behind the Hannibal Lecter books, saw an idea he could use and began ...

Eleven years after “The Silence of the Lambs,” Hannibal Lecter returned. Stephen King called him “the great fictional monster of our time.” Credit...Kristian Hammerstad Supported by By ...

He was dubbed Il Mostro – The Monster of Florence – and has never been ... Thomas Harris based his Silence of the Lambs character Hannibal Lecter on Il Mostro and in 1994 attended the trial ...

The first bone-chilling teaser-trailer for Netflix‘s “The Monster of Florence” from Italian genre specialist Stefano Sollima has been unveiled. In an exclusive with Variety, the streamer has ...

Academy Award nominee Antonio Banderas (“Pain and Glory”) is set to star in Studiocanal’s ”The Monster of Florence,” a six-hour limited series based on The New York Times bestseller ...

The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi ... a gruesome detail which Thomas Harris borrowed for his novel Hannibal. Mr Spezi had coined the term "Monster of Florence" and it ...

Over endless rounds of espresso, Spezi told Preston about the Monster of Florence, a serial killer suspected of 14 murders who had stalked the Tuscan hills since 1974 pouncing on young lovers in ...