Not yet thirty, the future Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez arrived in Rome in 1955 as a correspondent for El Espectador, formally to document the state of health of Pope Pacelli, who was said to be very ill: however, he remained there for a long time, more than a year, attending the Experimental Center of Cinematography to study in the place where neorealism was born, and also giving the finishing touches to his first novel, “La hojarasca”, published in Italy only in 1977 with the title “Foglie morte”.
“Gabo” returned to Rome again during his life and in the city, between Trastevere and Parioli, he set “The Saint”, a story inspired also and above all by the atmosphere of Villa Borghese, the green lung full of art where the writer loved to walk. And right in the trees and avenues of his favorite villa, his name is today on a marble plaque. On 26 October, the city dedicated a street a few meters from the Casa del Cinema to the great Colombian writer, at the intersection of Viale dei Cavalli Marini and Viale del Museo Borghese. To celebrate the unveiling of the plaque, a whirlwind of golden confetti and hundreds of yellow paper butterflies, those butterflies that in “One Hundred Years of Solitude” preceded the arrival of the character Mauricio Babilonia.
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