Bruno Pandolfi is a Neapolitan engineer who, in the course of his professional activity, has designed, directed and tested, in Italy and abroad, countless works, such as railway bridges, viaducts, industrial sheds, shopping centres, hotels, cinemas and theatres, sports facilities, residential buildings, and maritime works, such as jetties, docks, and port works. He has also carried out important and delicate static and conservative restoration works on buildings of historical, architectural, and archaeological interest.

In spite of his professional achievements, he has been interested in and passionate about classical humanistic studies, such as Italian, Latin and Greek literature, history and above all art history, since his high school days. When the general situation in the country no longer allowed him to carry out his engineering activity as before – mainly because he was urged to do so by someone very close to him – he began to write novels in which Love, defined as ‘the engine of life, without which life makes no sense’, is always the central topic.