“A Feast of Prussian Blue” (2005) is a novel by the famous Italian writer Franco Matteucci. This is the work of a mature master, whimsically mixing melodrama, eroticism, sophisticated lyricism and good humor. The action of the novel takes place in a luxurious villa, whose owner decides to organize a grandiose event on the occasion of the birth of his first child with music, dancing, fireworks - and all this in scenery that repeats those that were erected in Rome on the occasion of the birth of Louis XVI. The celebration should be broadcast live. However, the situation is rapidly heating up. The development of the plot involves the beauty Beatrice, who is eager to become a porn star, changing the shape of her breasts depending on her mood, the Oscar-winning theater director Ruggeri and his lover, a young Arab who paints frescoes on the Temple of Hymen. And what role does potassium cyanide, Prussian blue and a huge baobab imported from Senegal play here, the reader will have to find out for himself...