Rosa Planas's novel "Florentine Masks" will attract the attention of all lovers of detective stories, rich in cultural, literary, and historical content. In an incomprehensible way, the wooden boy Pinocchio invades the real life of the heroes, but his figure turns out to be not so much funny as ominous. “Pinocchio’s Skull,” a strange, big-nosed skull discovered in Haiti, has a mysterious power over the thoughts and destinies of people, forever depriving them of peace and dooming them to a painful search for a solution that is hidden in the labyrinth of the past - historical and mythical. Trying to unravel the invisible threads connecting the characters of the Italian “comedy of masks” and silent films, members of the secret lodge of the Carbonari and the inhabitants of the “house of the dead” with the creation of Carlo Collodi - Pinocchio, the heroes of the novel expose themselves to real danger. Murder, death, suicide... Will any of the novel's heroes manage to penetrate the secret of Pinocchio and emerge from this ordeal alive and unharmed?